Carol has worked for Centrum Springs, Inc., for many years and has now been given the opportunity to advance in the company. Her manager is retiring and hopes that Carol will take over for him. However, even though Carol is an experienced employee, there are many things that she still needs to learn. Carol has trained many new employees, but she has never held a management position. Carol needs to have a general understanding of what it takes to be a manager.

There are many problems in Carol's department. There are no plans to fall back on in case the initial plan fails. Carol also will need to learn how to direct people in such a way that makes them want to do more than they absolutely have to. Carol feels that this is a great opportunity, and she is anxious to learn everything to be a great manager. She knows that if she performs well in this position, she will have the opportunity to move up the corporate ladder.

Refer to Centrum Springs, Inc. The different resources available to all managers include all of the following except

From the question we are informed that Carol's manager is retiring and she will take over. And she will take over management position. Carol needs to have a general understanding of what it takes to be a manager. Therefore in this case, She will need to have knowledge about ✓controlling

✓organizing

✓planning

✓ leading

And all of these are managerial function which are managerial job role as regards to task-based perspective.

Organizing can be regarded as function of management which requires development of organizational structure as well as allocation of human resources so that objective of organization can be met

Planning which requires the manager to create plans so that goals and objectives can be achieved. It involves

delegation of responsibilities, allocation of employee resources