As you sit at your desk on your first day back after a rejuvenating vacation to the Caribbean, you bring your mind back to your work as the head of a beverage bottling plant. You have a lot of work to catch up on, and need to prioritize what is most important to address today. Because a recent acquisition of a competitor has created a situation in which the merged organization has some redundancy across jobs and roles you take a look at how jobs in your plant are designed and make sure that managers have a reasonable number of employees who report to them.

Which of the following basic management functions did you just engage in?

a. Leading
b. Planning
c. Organizing
d. Controlling