Directing

Directing helps to initiate action by guiding and instructing people in the organisation towards the attainment of desired objectives,

Yes, as a managers get all work done smoothly and successfully through effective direction.

The various important elements of the directing function of management are:
(a) Supervision. Not in syllabus.
(b) Leadership. Leadership may be defined as the process of influencing other people to work willingly for group objectives. The leadership process has four main elements. It is a process of influence. Its purpose is to influence the behaviour of followers. It involves interaction between two or more people. It implies pursuit of common goals.
(c) Motivation. Motivation may be defined as the process of stimulating people to action to accomplish desired goals. It involves arousing needs and desires in peopIe to initiate and direct their behaviour in a purposive manner. Motivation is a psychological phenomenon which arises from the feeling of needs and wants of individuals. It causes goal directed behaviour.
(d) Communication. Communication is the process of transmission of message, information, etc. and creation of understanding between two parties. It involves sending a message to another, who receives the message and responds to it. Effective communication takes place when the received message is understood in the same sense by the receiver as the sender intends. The essential features of communication are the following:
(i) Communication always involves two parties.
(ii) Communication is a two-way process.
(iii) Communication is a pervasive function and occurs at all levels of an organisation.

Motivation is a process of stimulating people to action to accomplish desired goals.

Directing

Motivation is a process of stimulating people to action to accomplish desired goals.

Two characteristics of 'organisational climate' are;
(i) Individual autonomy
(ii) Reward Orientation

Motives arise out of needs of employees

Free-rein style of leadership