Noun

Singular management

Plural usually uncountable; plural managements

management (usually uncountable; plural managements)

1. (uncountable, management) administration; the process or practice of managing.
2. (management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
3. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

   Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.

Synonyms

• (process or practice of managing): mgt, mgmt

Related terms

• manager
• managerial

Derived terms

• advanced traffic management
• anger management
• content management system
• cross-platform application management
• change management
• database management system
• inventory management
• knowledge management
• data management
• document management system
• master data management

• micromanagement
• time management
• management cybernetics
• strategic management
• Human Resource Management
• risk management
• package management system
• performance management system
• project management
• soil management

Management in all business and human organization activity is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

Because organisations can be viewed as systems, management can also be defined as human action, including design, to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system. This view opens the opportunity to 'manage' oneself, a pre-requisite to attempting to manage others

Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act(s) of management.

Management in all business and human organization activity is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.

Sourced

• MANAGEMENT: A class of semi-skilled corporate hirelings whose rise within the organization correlates directly with the amount of work they delegate to their more talented underlings.
  • Rick Bayan (1997). The Cynic's Dictionary

• If Peter Drucker is responsible for legitimizing the field of management and Tom Peters for popularizing it, then Charles Handy should be known as the person who gave it a philosophical elegance and eloquence that was missing from the field.
  • Warren Bennis, leadership and management scholar and writer

• Fourteen basic and well-known managing processes make up the components from which a management system for any business can be fashioned.

1. Setting objectives: ...
2. Planning strategy: ...
3. Establishing goals: ...
4. Developing a company philosophy: ...
5. Establishing policies: ...
6. Planning the organization structure: ...
7. Providing personnel: ...
8. Establishing procedures: ...
9. Providing facilities: ...
10. Providing capital: ...
11. Setting standards: ...
12. Establishing management programs and operational plans: ...
13. Providing control information: ...
14. Activating people: ...

• • Marvin Bower (1966). The Will to Manage: Corporate Success Through Programmed Management. Page 26, New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-006735-X

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