You will complete this assignment based on the four management functions and how they facilitate effective business performance, the

three levels of management and their role in planning, and the relationship of the SWOT analysis to effective strategy formulation.

Your Capstone employer boss is very impressed with your work on each installment and feels that it is time to discuss promoting you to a

manager. In order to consider you for this position, she has requested that you prepare an executive summary based on discussing the

content from your previous installments in the context of the management principles presented in this module, including the WOT Learning

Object

Respond to the following questions and provide a minimum of two paragraphs for #1, #2, and #3 (i.e. minimum of 6 total paragraphs):

1. Define how the four management functions facilitate effective business performance by addressing the following:

a. Planning: utilize your M11 Discussion: "Financial Operations Focus" to provide an example of the type of plan that a financial

manager at Johnson & Johnson could engage in. Include the purpose and goal, anticipated time frame, and extent of

coverage for this plan. Next, describe how this management function facilitates effective performance at Johnson & Johnson.

b. Leading: utilize your M5 Discussion: "Entrepreneurial Focus" to describe how the entrepreneur that you selected demonstrates

leadership. Include the type of power and leadership style that you believe that they demonstrate. Next, describe how this

management function facilitates effective performance at their entrepreneurial company.

c. Organizing: utilize your M4 Assignment: "Organizational Structure Focus" to provide two examples of how Hewlett-Packard

management groups resources and tasks in order to accomplish the organization's plans. Next, describe how this

management function facilitates effective performance at Hewlett-Packard.

d. Controlling: utilize your M6 Assignment: "Human Resource Management & Motivation Focus" to provide an example of how

NBC Universal could apply each of the five steps of the control process to an activity performed by the person working in

position that you identified in the installment. Next, describe how this management function facilitates effective performance at

NBC Universal.