Practice question · Match the pairs
Which of Fayol’s functions is each activity? Sort them.
- Leading
- Planning
- Controlling
- Organizing
- Setting next year’s sales targets
- Redrawing who reports to whom
- Comparing Q3 results against budget
- Talking a discouraged team through a setback
Hints
- Ask whether the activity looks forward, builds structure, moves people, or measures.
- Comparing outcomes against the plan belongs to the last function.
Show the answer
- Leading → Talking a discouraged team through a setback
- Planning → Setting next year’s sales targets
- Controlling → Comparing Q3 results against budget
- Organizing → Redrawing who reports to whom
Why
Forward-looking choices are planning, structure is organizing, people-work is leading, and measurement against the plan is controlling, the cycle’s four stations.
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