Mary is a production supervisor in her company. She decides on Thursday afternoon how many units of output her employees will be able to produce and on which days certain products will be run in his department. she also decides which of her employees are going to be responsible for operating which machines within the department next week, as her employees are multi$-$skilled assemblers. On Tuesday, she informs her employees whom she has assigned to which machines by handing out assignment sheets and informs the employees that the schedule is going to be difficult due to the increased number of units. She goes on to tell them that she is sure they can fulfill the schedule because they are such good and skilled employees. Each day during the week she checks the amount of output that the employees have completed and the number of units that have been scraped.

When Mary checks the amount of output that the employees have completed and the number of units that have been scraped, she is performing which of the management functions?

organizing

leading

plainning

controlling