ADMINISTRATIVE

FUNCTIONS
POSDCORB

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 PLANNING
• Is deciding in advance what to do, how to do
it, when to do it, and who should do it. It
maps the path from where the organization
is to where it wants to be. The planning
function involves establishing goals and
arranging them in logical order.
Administrators engage in both short-range
and long-range planning.

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 PLANNING

• deciding what objectives

to pursue during a future
time period and what to do
in order to achieve those
objectives

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 PLANNING

• is the mental effort by

which executives anticipate
the possible causes or
factors that may affect or
change the activities and
objectives of a particular
organization.

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 PLANNING
• according to Herbert g.
Hicks, successful planning
requires analysis of date
from the past, decision in
the present, and an
evaluation on the future.
good planning is the basis
of good management.
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 ORGANIZING
• is a grouping together of
men and establishing
relationships among them,
defining the authority and
responsibility that the
personal have in the use of
the company’s material
resources to attain
predetermined goals or
objectives.

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 ORGANIZING
• is the identification and grouping of
work to be done, the delegation of
authority and responsibility to the
personal who are to perform the
work, and the establishment of
relationships among the personnel
in order to use to maximum
advantage the company’s material
resources in the attainment of a
common objective.
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 ORGANIZING
• with proper organization,
duplication of efforts, delays
in decision making, rivalry and
friction among employees,
communication and other
similar problems are
minimized, if not altogether
avoided.

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 STAFFING

• determining human
resource needs and
recruiting, selecting,
training, and developing
human resources.

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 STAFFING
•after an organization’s structural
design is in place, it needs people
with the right skills, knowledge, &
abilities to fill in that structure.
people are an organization’s most
important resource, because people
either create or undermine an
organization’s reputation for quality
in both products & service.
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 DIRECTING

•it is telling what each man

should do and making him
like doing it. it involves
both motivation and
communication.

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 DIRECTING
•is said to be a process in which the
managers instruct, guide and oversee
the performance of the workers to
achieve predetermined goals. directing
is said to be the heart of management
process. planning, organizing, staffing
have got no importance if direction
function does not take place.

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 COORDINATING
according to
•henri fayol coordination means
binding together, unifying and
harmonizing all activity and effort.
•john m. pfiffner it is getting people in
an organization to work together
harmoniously to achieve a common
goal with a minimum expenditure of
effort and material.

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 COORDINATING
•its importance is probably
directly proportional to the
increasing differences,
relatedness and number of
persons, activities, and
organizational units
requiring coordination.

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 REPORTING
•is keeping those to whom the
executive is responsible
informed as to what is going
on, which thus includes
keeping himself and his
subordinates informed through
records, research and
inspections;
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 REPORTING

•organizations typically
require a wide range of
reports, e.g., financial
reports, status reports,
project reports, etc. to
monitor what's being done,
by when and how.
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BUDGETING
• Budgeting incorporates most of the
administrative functions, beginning
with the implementation of a budget
plan through the application of
budget controls. A budget is
generally a list of all planned
expenses and revenues. It is a plan
for saving and spending

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 BUDGETING
• Provide a forecast of revenues
and expenditures i.e.
construct a model of how our
business might perform
financially speaking if certain
strategies, events and plans
are carried out.

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BUDGETING
• Enables the actual financial
operation of the business to
be measured against the
forecast.

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