User:Clarity please

Definition of Headquarters:

Headquarters: That part of an organization performing the five functions of a manager/leader, while the rest of the organization (subordinate Operational Activities)does all the work of the organization. Each subordinate Operational Activity--viewed as a separate organization--also has a Headquarters and its own Operational Activities.

That finishes my promised activity. However, since I introduced the term, I will define The five functions of a manager.

The Five Functions of a Manager/Leader and any assisting Staff (preferably limited in size and organized by management function--not by work type), of an Organization are: (Note: No separate

                                                                                    leadership
 --Decision-making: selecting among alternatives, including:                      courses...Pls!)
    --Planning: selecting among alternative plans, and
    --Policy-making: selecting among alternative rules and procedures to be obeyed
                     in both managing/leading and work.
 --Communication of decisions in plans and directives and by training
 --Organizing both Headquarters and subordinates Operational Activities and allocating resources
 --Follow-up on both work and managing/leading, with constant emphasis on management improvement, 
   poor managing/leading being the root cause of most work defects
 --Motivating/leading fully integrated into each of the other four functions.

Note to editors: Failure to define terms properly is the basic reason for management science being in chaos. All training in "management" I have ever attended was, instead, training in work...including our highest college...The Industrial College...now renamed as a procurement [work] training college. All Presidential investigative commissions (I spent a year with one), including both thick Hoovers, have hundreds of pages of recommendations for improving work laws and regulations and nothing on management defects/improvement. 300 CEOs sent letters...all involving only work laws. All of our governmental HQ are jam packed with people writing work directives (forcing lower HQ to face upward, not downward where work is being done)and doing absolutely no follow up on either work or quality of management. Your many pages on strategy/strategic planning, for example, are complete nonsense. A headquarters is most effective when it is massively decentralized..and strategy is tersely worded..and the emphasis is to assist lower HQ not drive them crazy...like the march 9, 1942, reorganization of the Army Staff when, on that day more than 12,000 people left the Staff, leaving 550 people to coordinate 11,000,000 people worldwide superbly for 3 1/2 years. Somewhere you define management and completely leave out follow up....how could you when it is absolutely essential?