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Transforming Management: Media Assignment
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Introduction to management- Online- Section 5
James Jessup
July 13, 2010
Transforming Management: Media Assignment
A way to effectively handle a large task is to manage it. Without proper skilled and qualifies administrators and employees, productivity could fall resulting in expected goal not being met. In short, a business could fell. Management consists of Planning, Organizing, Leadership, and Control (POLC). The movie Transformers (2007), directed by Michael Bay, staring Shia Babeuf as Sam and Megan Fox as Mikaela, is a perfect example of good management. The task was to retrieve “the Cube” and save the humans, but the goal was to repopulate the alien planet.
The planning stage is where you basically determine what is need for a particular task, set goals or need outcome, and finally set an achievable timeline or outline for the entire project. In the movie, the goal of repopulating the alien planet could only be achieved by retrieving the thing that created the Transformers (aliens), “the Cube”. The problem was, the cube was lost in space, and somehow ended up on Planet Earth. The plan they, the Autobots (good transformers), came up with was; go to earth, find the Cube before the Decepticons (bad transformer) did, and save their planet. And, do this without letting the humans know they exist.
Organizing is a skill that involves getting the right people together to reach your goals. It also includes letting them know what their roles will be, and making sure you have supplied them everything they need to know so that they can perform well. The Optimus Prime, the leader of the Transformers, use the internet for research, and sent Autobot Bumblebee to earth first for the sole purpose of locating Sam and sending back any other information. When Prime himself arrived, he brought a weapons specialist, a medical personnel, and extra Autobot. They were all supplied with the basic knowledge of how to find...