-Victor is deciding between a low cost strategy in a differentiation strategy.

- Aimee is involved in performance reviews of her top sales associates.

- David is reading the company's quarterly financial statements and assessing the contribution of his work unit to the overall goals of the company.

- Buzz is determining the arrangement of the space for the new R&D center. It needs to be set up so there's Maxximum interaction among the workers in order to stimulate creativity.

- Josh is measuring the quality of items ready for shipment.

- Lauren is describing her vision of providing much-needed medicine at a low cost to the poorest people of the world to a group of potential investors.

- Steve is motivating his team to succeed by describing importance of their tasks

- Carina is assigning mentors to the current group of new hires. She has 15 new hires, but only three available mentors.

-Bridget is explaining the reasons behind the new re-organization plan and inspiring everyone to pitch in and make it work

- Yichen I was working on the departments hiring forecast for next year, deciding how many new employees will be needed.

- Kelvin is busy, assigning employees to teams based on their strengths, and designated team leaders.

- Grace is busy deciding on the best goals for her team, and the path to take to achieve those goals.

ESSential Managerial Tasks The job of management is to help an organization make the best use of its resources in order to achieve its goals. Managers at all levels and in all departments - whether in small or large companies, for-profit or not-for-profit organizations, or organizations that operate in one country or throughout the world-are responsible for performing four essential managerial tasks: planning. organizing. leading, and controlling. You have just started your first management job in a large multinational organization. You are absolutely fascinated by the variety of things in which the managers you meet are involved. There are so many activities that you try to organize them into the simple framework you learned in your earliest business classes; planning, organizing. leading, and controlling. Roll over each name to read a description of what the person is doing. Then drag the name to the appropriate column to match it with the principal managerial task being performed