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This 3 page paper defined the four functions of management; planning, organizing, leading and controlling, explaining how each function relates to management and specifically the management of a law firm. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Dorr as any other organization. Planning is a management function, planning may be defined as "A scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective"
(Dictionary.com, 2005). For a law form, which is usually made up of partners that are all legal practitioners, the goal is likely to be the creation of a profit by
satisfying the client needs giving them a good quality and reliable service to meet their needs. Therefore, for planning to take place this needs to be a top down function,
stating at the top with the defining of the goals and how they are to be achieved. This is strategic level planning (Mintzberg et al, 2003). When the goals are
defined the path to achieving them can be put together using the knowledge of the resources that are available, or can be obtained or created (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This
is the business level plan and requires the manager to know the company and its employees. The final level of planning is the operational level, where the actual tasks are
allocated, who is going to do what and by when. A plan may also be seen as taking place for different types of task, there may be an overall strategy,
but there may also be the need to plan for a specific case, the lawyers determining what the strategy will be and how to approach the case, part of this
will then include delegation such as research to juniors and instructions to the staff regarding the way any tasks are to be undertaken or external enquires handled. This leads
into the task of organizing. Organization can only occur where there is a plan. If this is lacking form higher up then it may becomes a lower level plan. Organizations
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