Managing
is actually managing situation. In simple term, we can say that management is
the coordination of work activities so that they are completed effectively
& efficiently with and through other people.
In
broad sense we can define it as-Management in all business and organizations is
the act of getting people together to accomplish goals and objectives by using
available resources efficiently and effectively.
Many
eminent pioneers & critiques of management defined that term in various ways.
Some of them are:-
(1)“Management is the art of knowing what you want
to do and then seeing that it is done in the best and cheapest way.” —F. W. Taylor
(2)“Management is a multipurpose organ that manage a
business and manages Managers and manages Workers and work.” —Peter Drucker
(3)”To
manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate and
to control.”
—Henry Fayol
(4)“Management
is the fundamental integrating and operating mechanism underlying organized
efforts”.
— Dalton
E. Mc Farland
(5)“Management
is an executive function which is primarily concerned with carrying out the
board policies laid down by the administration.
It is that function of an enterprise which concerns itself with the direction
and control of various activities to attain the business objectives.” —Dr. William R. Spriegel
(6)“What
manager does”
—L.A.Allen
(7)“Management
is a distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating, &
controlling by utilizing in each both science & arts and followed in order
to accomplish predetermined goals & objectives.”
—J.R.Terry
(8)“Management
is a social process of designing & maintaining an environment in which
individuals working together in groups & efficiently accomplish selected
aims.”
—Harold Koontz & Weihrich
(9)“Management
is art of getting things done through other.” —Mary Parker Follet
(10)“Management
is coordinating & overseeing the activities of others so their activities
are completed efficiently & effectively. —S.P.Robbins
