Principles of management/PMAN101/Management Overview/E-activity-tasks

Completing the challenge

10 Roles of Managers

1. Review the management functions discussed in the Section 1.4 Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling in Principles of Management available from Saylor Academy.
2. Briefly describe a management situation or project where you, or a manager you worked with, exercised each of the four POLC functions or principles.
3. Justify why you associated the chosen situation or project with each of the four functions in the framework (list each principle together with a brief description of some specific actions taken).
4. Reflect on how one of these principles would mesh with some of Mintzberg's 10 roles of managers (see image).
5. Thinking about how balanced you (or the manager you worked with) were between planning, organizing, leading and controlling, explain how your actions will contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.