Which concept best fits planning and coordinating human resources and tasks to achieve objectives?

• A. Purchasing Power
• B. Scheduling
• C. Management Skills
• D. Business History

Answer: (C)

Management skills are the ability to plan, organize, lead, and control resources to reach goals. When you’re arranging who does what, assigning tasks, setting timelines, and ensuring people have what they need to perform their work, you’re applying management skills. This approach covers not just scheduling or timing, but the broader act of coordinating human resources and activities to achieve objectives, monitoring progress, and adapting as needed to stay on track.

Purchasing power relates to the value of money and what it can buy, which isn’t about coordinating people or tasks. Scheduling focuses on when tasks happen, a part of the job but narrower than the full coordination of people and work. Business history deals with past events and data, not the ongoing process of planning and directing resources toward goals.