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Anita Rao runs a hospital trust. Her tasks this week are: (i) deciding next year's bed expansion target, (ii) assigning nurses to wards, (iii) comparing actual patient-care results with targets and correcting variances. Which sequence correctly names the management functions these tasks represent?

The sequence is Planning, Organising, Controlling. Deciding a future bed expansion target is planning, assigning nurses to wards arranges people and resources and is organising, and comparing actual results with targets then correcting variances is controlling. Other orders mislabel at least one task.

  1. APlanning, Organising, ControllingCorrect
  2. BOrganising, Planning, Controlling
  3. CPlanning, Controlling, Organising
  4. DControlling, Organising, Planning

Explanation

Setting a future expansion target is planning. Assigning nurses to wards arranges people and resources, which is organising (or staffing in some classifications, but organising fits the options). Comparing actual with target and correcting variances is controlling. The other orders mismatch the tasks.

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