Management
Ashford University
Five Function
4-1-2013
Medilodge of Sterling Heights is a nursing and rehabilitation center in Michigan and just like any other company they use the five functions of management to run their facility. Even though they are a health care facility those functions are not used the way you would think, granted the facility has many good qualities, but sadly there are many things I have taken from here that I don’t want to do when I open my own facility. The Five functions used within this facility are; planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling. The only problem is in each of these areas either they are too light or they go to the extreme.
“Planning is a systematic process in which managers make decisions about future activities and the key goals that the organization will pursues,”( Reilly, M., Minnick, C., & Baack, D. (2011). The five functions of effective management). The Upper management constantly has meetings planning on how to make things better for the residents. Each week the Administrator meets with the managers and the unit managers for a safety meeting to improve on resident safety. These meetings are where the managers make decisions about future activities that our facility will pursue. There planning process also has to include our union and their decisions as well. A new contract is written up every two years but they are also there to make sure that the agreement is stuck to and not bypassed. “A union is a formal association of workers that promotes the interests of its members though collective action,” (Reilly, M., Minnick, C., & Baack, D. (2011). The five functions of effective management). Although the unions voice is not very strong in the facility, but more on that later. Planning is a strong point for this facility they do a lot of planning, but it’s the fallowing through or how they fallow through that can be the problem.
“Organizing is the process of bringing people and resources together to
Five Function
4-1-2013
Medilodge of Sterling Heights is a nursing and rehabilitation center in Michigan and just like any other company they use the five functions of management to run their facility. Even though they are a health care facility those functions are not used the way you would think, granted the facility has many good qualities, but sadly there are many things I have taken from here that I don’t want to do when I open my own facility. The Five functions used within this facility are; planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling. The only problem is in each of these areas either they are too light or they go to the extreme.
“Planning is a systematic process in which managers make decisions about future activities and the key goals that the organization will pursues,”( Reilly, M., Minnick, C., & Baack, D. (2011). The five functions of effective management). The Upper management constantly has meetings planning on how to make things better for the residents. Each week the Administrator meets with the managers and the unit managers for a safety meeting to improve on resident safety. These meetings are where the managers make decisions about future activities that our facility will pursue. There planning process also has to include our union and their decisions as well. A new contract is written up every two years but they are also there to make sure that the agreement is stuck to and not bypassed. “A union is a formal association of workers that promotes the interests of its members though collective action,” (Reilly, M., Minnick, C., & Baack, D. (2011). The five functions of effective management). Although the unions voice is not very strong in the facility, but more on that later. Planning is a strong point for this facility they do a lot of planning, but it’s the fallowing through or how they fallow through that can be the problem.
“Organizing is the process of bringing people and resources together to