Question

Study the following case/situation and express your opinion

Navnath and Jagannath are partners of a firm dealing with civil construction activity. They have set objective of completing 3 projects within next four years. Navnath is responsible for arranging funds, construction machinery and required raw material while Jagannath hired architects, draftsman, surveyors, contractors and labors. 

1. Name the management function Navnath was involved in.
2. Who did staffing for the firm? 
3. Which management function Navnath and Jagannath did jointly?

Answer 1

1. Navnath was involved in the management function called organizing. Organising is the process of identifying, bringing the required resources together, grouping and arranging them properly for achieving the objectives.
2. Jagannath did staffing for the firm. It is one of the functions of management which involves attracting, recruiting, selecting, placing, appraising, remunerating, developing and retaining the best workforce.
3. Navnath and Jagannath jointly engaged in the function of planning. It involves deciding in advance what to do how to do it, when to do it and who is to do it.