Management Case

Management is one of the most common jobs in the world today. The key aspects that make up the human side of management and leadership are efficiency and effectiveness; which incorporate strategic planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. Incorporating basic core values and principles to guide a business enables them to meet objectives and goals through employees. Motivating employees to succeed and wanting to perform well are all affected by the quality of life in the workplace. Managers play a critical part on how a business functions, interacts, and maintains order and discipline so the organization can be successful. Management skills consist of strategy, persuasion, negotiation, and writing, speaking, and listening. It also demonstrates qualities that define leadership. Additionally, integrity and character are core values that produce things like vision, sensitivity, commitment, insight, and ethical standards that make up the aspects of management (Teel, 1996).

Being a manager has various functions, it all depends on what type of company you work for and the work required. Management involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. When planning managers have to set goals and determine the best way to achieve them. Planning allows a company to reach a goal or complete the mission. Depending on the company’s mission the planning can vary in different types such as strategic planning which is establishing goals and objectives or performance which targets an overall course of action that will allow the company to meet a long term goal. For example, I am active duty military and work at the biggest Navy reserve center in the world. I am in charge of the Manpower department and in order for me to meet the mission of the navy we have defined plans set in place to achieve a goal and the overall mission to make sure the Navy Reserve force is always ready to deploy at a moments notice. Some other plans that companies can utilize are tactical plans, which is a course of action to achieve short-term goals, generally within a year or less; operational plans which is the process of linking strategic goals and objectives to tactical goals and objectives, and contingency plans, preparing for events such as the loss of data, people, customers, suppliers, and other disruptive unknowns. These types of plans can be executed and accomplished through organization and staffing (Exploring Business, 2014).

Organizational structure and staffing have a major part in the execution of plans and management. In order for companies to execute the job there needs to be structure and placement of appropriate people in certain positions to allow it to be operational. The business environment is always changing, companies are always restructuring to stay competitive or become competitive. Restructuring is a form of organizational structure allowing the company to re-evaluate