Unit 1

MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION

Concept of Management

 Management as a discipline
 Management as a group of people
 Management as a process
What is management?

 Management is an art of getting things done through others.

 It is social & technical process that utilizes resources,
determines human actions & incorporates changes in order to
accomplish goals.
 Rightly Management has come into its own, like other
leading professions such as medical, engineering & law has
achieved this distinction within a comparatively short time.
Definitions of Management

 “Management is a multi-purpose organ that manages business, manages managers & manages workers
& work”
-Peter Drucker
 “To manage is to forecast & to plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate & to control”
- Henri Fayol
 “Management is the art of getting things done through & with people in formally organized groups”
-Mary Parker Follett & Harrold Koontz
 “Management is the process of accomplishment of results through the efforts of other people”
-Lawrence Appley
Features of Management

 Group Activity
 Goal-oriented process
 Continuous process
 Dynamic Process
 Integrating Force
 Intangible Force
 Universal
Functions of Management
Importance of Management

 Achieving organisational goals

 Increasing efficiency
 Inculcating creativity
 Building dynamic organisation
 Integrating various interest groups
 Developing society