In 1916, a French coal mine director named Henri Fayol wrote a book entitled "Administration Industrielle et Generale," which set forth five distinct functions of managing that Fayol insisted were ...

Understanding the basic management functions will help you not only perform better as a manager, but it will help you effectively lead and manage the employees who work for you.

It focuses on basic policy management principles, while the second will look at a number of specific issues with which the managers of policy functions will likely wrestle in time.