Four Functions of Management

Planning - A good manager needs to know how to plan. You can not get anything done without a plan. We need planning to set our goals and objectives. We use planning to come up with a time frame in which we want to reach our goals that can be used to measure the company's and our own success. At my company to measure our statistics and our numbers monthly we come up with a plan at the end of the year for next years goal. We call this our Policy Deployment meeting, in these meetings we discuss how we measure up to the goal we set for various categories we use to measure what our customers want. Here at Veeder Root we try to have these meetings once a month, where all the department heads discuss our measures and any counter measure we may need to put into place.…