Running head: MNGMNT. ACTIVITY & REFLECTION 1
Week 4 Assignment: Team Management Activity and Reflection for Amazon
Warehouse Jennie LaCour
MGT330: Management for
Organizations Instructor Jon Webber
January 25, 2019
, MNGMNT. ACTIVITY & REFLECTION 2
Introduction
As a newly appointed manager of a new Amazon warehouse plant that employs one
hundred employees which consist of a team of ten supervisors and ninety packers, I will oversee
the entire warehouse operations. The success of organizational functions within all corporations,
businesses, and companies depend on five critical elements or management practices. According
to Baack, Reilly, & Minnick (2014), “the management discipline consists of a set of five specific
functions: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling” (ch. 1.1, para. 2). Proper use
of these crucial five practices within the management team can increase efficiency, boost
company morale, produce more effective problem-solving procedures, and aid in achieving
organizational goals. Detailed insight into the five functions will explain why it is imperative for
myself, an Amazon warehouse plant manager, as well as all managers to employ best practices
within these disciplines. By applying those best practices within the five functions, it will foster
growth within and outside the organization, provide smoother operational processes, and enable
quality management strategies.
Planning
Within the management, role planning is paramount to build an effective team and
culture that affords the organization with smooth and incident free operations. There are four
steps involved in the planning process; accessing the environment, determining organizational
goals, creating plans, and allocating resources. Management consultant Albert Humphrey created
a tool, SWOT analysis, to help in accessing a company’s environment and substantiating its
objectives as well as how to attain them. “Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
(SWOT) analysis indicates a framework for helping the researchers or planners to identify and
prioritize
Week 4 Assignment: Team Management Activity and Reflection for Amazon
Warehouse Jennie LaCour
MGT330: Management for
Organizations Instructor Jon Webber
January 25, 2019
, MNGMNT. ACTIVITY & REFLECTION 2
Introduction
As a newly appointed manager of a new Amazon warehouse plant that employs one
hundred employees which consist of a team of ten supervisors and ninety packers, I will oversee
the entire warehouse operations. The success of organizational functions within all corporations,
businesses, and companies depend on five critical elements or management practices. According
to Baack, Reilly, & Minnick (2014), “the management discipline consists of a set of five specific
functions: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling” (ch. 1.1, para. 2). Proper use
of these crucial five practices within the management team can increase efficiency, boost
company morale, produce more effective problem-solving procedures, and aid in achieving
organizational goals. Detailed insight into the five functions will explain why it is imperative for
myself, an Amazon warehouse plant manager, as well as all managers to employ best practices
within these disciplines. By applying those best practices within the five functions, it will foster
growth within and outside the organization, provide smoother operational processes, and enable
quality management strategies.
Planning
Within the management, role planning is paramount to build an effective team and
culture that affords the organization with smooth and incident free operations. There are four
steps involved in the planning process; accessing the environment, determining organizational
goals, creating plans, and allocating resources. Management consultant Albert Humphrey created
a tool, SWOT analysis, to help in accessing a company’s environment and substantiating its
objectives as well as how to attain them. “Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
(SWOT) analysis indicates a framework for helping the researchers or planners to identify and
prioritize
