Assignment

Part 1: Apply the four functions of management to your workplace or a past workplace.

• Describe what functions (POLC) your supervisor or manager performed well and why.

• Which functions did they need to work on and why?

• Which of the four functions do you feel is the most important and why?

Now look at Maslow's Need Hierarchy and Alderfer's ERG Theory:

Maslow stated that people needed to satisfy one level of need at a time beginning at the base with physical needs (here we use a tree, Maslow used a pyramid). After these are satisfied, people will go on to the next level of needs and so forth. Eventually when all other needs are satisfied, people will look for self-actualization (at the top of the tree as seen here) to fulfill themselves.