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Management Functions Explorer
Students explore Fayol's four core management functions as a continuous cycle, with real-world examples and a guiding question for each, and see how the output of controlling feeds back into the next round of planning. The full interactive is available to licensed Education Universe users.
Undergraduate, ProfessionalExplorerCore Management Theory
Learning outcomes
- Describe the four functions of management.
- Explain how the functions form a cycle.
- Apply the functions to a real-world example.
Teaching guidance
Ask students to map a familiar organisation's activities onto the four functions.
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