Mgt 330 External Internal Factors

External/Internal Factors
                                                           
University of Phoenix
Management: Theory, Practice and Application
MGT/330
Oren Gilbert
May 29, 2011
Abstract
In this paper we will analyze the functions of management at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.   Looking at the four management functions (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) and how the functions are affected by internal and external factors.   An explanation of how globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics affect the four management functions will are discussed. Lastly how managers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital use delegation to manage each function (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling). As well as how each factor (globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics) is affected managerial delegation.

External/Internal Factors
      This paper is based on the St Jude’s Children Research Hospital. St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital was started in 1962 by founder Danny Thomas. Thomas’s goals were to change the lives of all the children that would walk through the hospital doors. He created a hospital that specialized in research and treatment of catastrophic diseases and illnesses. It was not until 2005 that St Jude’s added on a massive expansion that heightened the hospitals efforts to find cures, treatments, vaccines, and rehabilitation for children. This paper will include an explanation of how internal and external factors affect the four functions of management, and how management uses delegation to control factors and functions. Some of the factors and functions that will be discussed are globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics.

Internal and external factors affect the four functions of management in the SWOT Analysis in St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. This plan is a strategic planning tool that enables you to be able to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses,...