The primary function among the various functions of management is planning.
Management Functions
1. It is the duties and functions that management systems have. The first to elevate the management function to a universal law was the French management scientist Fayol. He wrote in 1916, "general management and industrial management" book, put forward management is to implement planning, organization, command, control and coordination.
2, and made the following analysis: planning is to explore the future, the development of action plans, which must have the characteristics of unity, continuity, flexibility, precision, organization is to establish the physical and social organization of the enterprise, so that it is suitable for the objectives, resources and needs of the enterprise.
3, command is to make everyone perform their duties, make the best contribution, so that the whole social organization to play its due role; coordination is to unify and reconcile the various departments of the enterprise, as well as the activities of the various workers, so that all the work can be carried out harmoniously; control is to verify the implementation of the plan.
4, in order to find shortcomings, take measures, to be corrected, in order to make the actual activities and planned activities to maintain consistency. 1937, the United States management experts Gulick in the above five functions on the basis of the proposed seven functions of management, including planning, organizing, personnel, command, coordination, reporting, budgeting, including the theory of seven functions.
5, program work has a broad and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, the program refers to the development of plans, implementation plans and check the three stages of the work of the program process. The narrow sense of the plan refers to the development of the plan, that is, according to the organization's internal and external realities, weighing the objective needs and subjective possibilities, through scientific investigation and prediction, the organization needs to be achieved within a certain period of time in the future to put forward the specific objectives and methods to achieve the goal.