A manager's role is to lead his/her organisation to a clearly stated objective. In doing so he/she must muster all his resources in a concise and organised attempt at achieving those goals. To do this a manager must lead, plan, organise and control the organisation's employees.

A manager can be defined in many ways. From the high ranking Chief Executive Officer or the Team leader who is fundamental to the organisation. Each manager therefore has different roles throughout these stages. The team leader 'manager' has a more hands on role in the running of the company compared to the CEO, who as well as concentrating on the day to day running of the company must also asses the future layout of the organisation(Dauphinais et al., 1998, p.18)

The four 'functions' of a manager as stated in the assignment are crucial to the prolonged success of any company. I believe 'leading' is perhaps the most crucial tool of any manager since his/her

As shown all four factors are inter-related in some manner. Planning allows the controlling stage to be performed while also allowing leaders to allocate tasks to team members which are organised to form one cohesive effort. Organising is the allocation of resources necessary to achieve this goals. However how would a team be organised if their was no objective? How would a team operate if their was no motivation? And how would the team perform is they weren't given feedback on their performance?

u The more specialised the work assigned to individuals within limits, the greater the potential for efficient performance.

Allen (1973, pg.64) states that there are seven major steps in planning, and although his work is dated both Robbins and Crainer, in more recent analysis of management agree with him in a majority of cases;

Robbins defines the control process as being a three step process; measuring, comparing and managerial action (2001, pg686) while Allen believes there four; developing standards, measuring performance, evaluating and correcting. (1979, pg 210) The only difference being that Robbins assumes the development of standards had already been completed in the planning stage.

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