Management in the Workplace
Management in the Workplace
MGT 330: Management for Organizations
Professor Toni Smith
February 21, 2014
Abstract
Utilizing the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling, this paper will explain how these, when implemented in the workplace, become effective tools for building and maintaining a business. In this case, Avery Landscaping was a company I spent a summer working for, and I will detail how their business platform met each one of these practices.
Management in the Workplace
Strong and effective workplace leadership requires the use of the five management processes: planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling (Reilly, Minnick, & Baack, 2011). Strong, effective businesses are built with equally strong leaders and employees. The employees are diligent to do the work required, while the leader ensures organization of the employees, openly communicates the planning, leading, staffing, and controlling to continuously meet or exceed goals. Landscaping is an ever-changing business front with many challenges, and requires owners to know, understand, and implement the five functions of management. This was the case while I worked for Avery Landscaping in the summer of 2011.
In order to reach their goals, owners use planning to set proper business objectives and choose the right course of action to reach these aims (Reilly, Minnick, & Baack, 2011). Detailed planning is required for any business to succeed. Instituting and executing the plan is the foundation, intertwined with the other management functions. If this base falls apart, or if even only one piece is removed, the entire structure can fail. Tim, the owner of Avery Landscaping, carefully laid out the business platform to employees and ensured proper and timely execution and it was this planning which
MGT 330: Management for Organizations
Professor Toni Smith
February 21, 2014
Abstract
Utilizing the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling, this paper will explain how these, when implemented in the workplace, become effective tools for building and maintaining a business. In this case, Avery Landscaping was a company I spent a summer working for, and I will detail how their business platform met each one of these practices.
Management in the Workplace
Strong and effective workplace leadership requires the use of the five management processes: planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling (Reilly, Minnick, & Baack, 2011). Strong, effective businesses are built with equally strong leaders and employees. The employees are diligent to do the work required, while the leader ensures organization of the employees, openly communicates the planning, leading, staffing, and controlling to continuously meet or exceed goals. Landscaping is an ever-changing business front with many challenges, and requires owners to know, understand, and implement the five functions of management. This was the case while I worked for Avery Landscaping in the summer of 2011.
In order to reach their goals, owners use planning to set proper business objectives and choose the right course of action to reach these aims (Reilly, Minnick, & Baack, 2011). Detailed planning is required for any business to succeed. Instituting and executing the plan is the foundation, intertwined with the other management functions. If this base falls apart, or if even only one piece is removed, the entire structure can fail. Tim, the owner of Avery Landscaping, carefully laid out the business platform to employees and ensured proper and timely execution and it was this planning which