Exploring Management Functions and Leadership Approaches

Exploring Management Functions and Leadership Approaches

In every institution, management plays a critical role in ensuring what they are entrusted with runs successfully. The four critical roles tasked to managements include planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (Litvinova, 2020). However, management may have more functions depending on their job description and their execution of work. Henry Fayol was one of the prominent theorists to discover and define functions of management in 1916. In his book, he identified five functions essential for managers to perform their roles daily in their organizations bounded with the 14 principles of management.

Planning is one of the critical roles of management in every sector. Managers must execute plans, develop targets, strategies, and…