Management involves four functions or processes first identified by Henri Fayol in 1916. Which of the following functions is most likely associated with aligning people and resources?

A) Planning

B) Controlling

C) Organizing

D) Directing

The correct answer is C) Organizing.

Explanation:

The organization of a company (business organization) is an administrative function that includes the organization, structuring and integration of the organic units and the resources (material, financial, human and technological) of a company, as well as the establishment of its attributions and relations between these.

The organization is the second administrative function after planning and before management and control. This allows for a better allocation and more efficient use of the company's resources necessary to carry out the activities and tasks necessary in turn to develop and apply the strategies and achieve the objectives established in the planning; but it also allows a better coordination between the different organic units of the company, and a better control of the personnel's performance as well as the results.

The organization of a company begins by dividing it into divisions, departments or areas that group activities and tasks with a certain homogeneity, as well as the establishment of hierarchical relationships that will occur between them.