Management Functions

Megan, a human resource manager, recently approved the hiring of five summer interns. She will use organizing grad to decide which departments would benefit from the interns' employment.

As production manager, part of Jennifer's job is to determine what raw materials will be needed to meet production needs. Sales forecasts may help Jennifer with this

function of management.

Julia uses $q,$ to determine how many focus groups will need to be conducted in order to accomplish the company's research goals.

Choose the management function being performed in each of the examples.

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