Northern Philippines College for Maritime, Science and Technology

Lingsat, City of San Fernando, La Union

Department of Criminology

CHARACTER FORMATION 2
Leadership, Decision Making, Management and Administration

MANAGEMENT
Management is a set of principles relating to the rules of planning,
coordinating, directing and regulating and the implementation of those principles in
the efficient and effective use of physical, financial, human and information capital
to achieve organizational objectives.

Definitions of Management
Management thinkers have defined management in their own ways:

A set of activities directed at the efficient and effective utilization of

resources in the pursuit of one or more goals.

Van Fleet and Peterson

Working with human, financial and physical resources to achieve organizational

objectives by performing the planning, organizing, leading and controlling functions.

Megginson, Mosley and Pietri

Management is a problem solving process of effectively achieving organizational

objectives through the efficient use of scarce resources in a changing environment.

Kreitner

Management is an art of knowing what to do, when to do and see that it is done in
the best and cheapest way.

F.W. Taylor

Management is an art of getting things done through and with the people in
formally organized groups. It is an art of creating an environment in which people
can perform and can cooperate towards attainment of group goals.

Harold Koontz
 Other Views on the Definition and scope of Management
“Managing is forecasting and preparing, arranging, directing, managing
and regulating,” says Henri Fayol. Fredmund Malik describes management as “
transforming capital into value”. It is described by Ghislain Deslandes as “a weak
force, under pressure to achieve results and endowed with the threefold power of
constraint, imitation and imagination, operating as subjective, interpersonal,
institutional and environmental level.”

Management as a Process
Management as a process began with the sole purpose of attaining an
objective. Further, it is specifically done in order to:

The purpose are:

1. rise clients’ satisfaction with the services the company provides.
2. develop personnel experience, abilities and capacity, or
3. accomplish a particular goal or goal.

Management as a mechanism often includes interrelated processes by which

management within an entity manages and controls the organization’s resources to
achieve desired outcomes. This requires not only managing and using financial
resources alone, but also human resources, as they are also important to an
organization in order to achieve its stated objectives.

Managers need to build a comfortable working atmosphere that promotes

healthy employee relations within the company. They will make sure that the
human resources work in harmony to achieve the goal of the organization. Having
full oversight of an organization’s affairs, managers need to follow due process to
set goals and come up with plans for achieving outcomes. Both phases of planning
and execution include due processes which the manager must strictly adhere to.

Management: The Never Ending Process

It simply means that management is a phase that will never stop, because
the company remains. Managers would always force themselves to tackle tasks,
goals, and problems at a certain point in time.

ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT
Task management is the practice of recording personnel’s day-to-day
accomplishments in an order in which they are done. It is a key to an organization’s
success, as it helps to monitor the organization’s course and maximize its work
efficiency. It relies on the philosophy that knowledge from higher levels of
management influences any activity that takes place in the company in a personal
or group workers organization, therefore it is essential to proper recording process
and cannot take place without controlling the activities.
 Managing tasks will help the workers organize their daily work. The activity
management system helps the managers and their subordinates to evaluate or
verify their results. This promotes workplace accountability as job tasks are
accurately monitored, and subordinate-deserved notifications are given according to
the employee’s daily-observed progress. Tracking the work of the employee and the
amount of time spent helps identify where improvements are essential.

Elements of the Ideal Activity Management Label

Monitoring this recorded information on a regular basis is essential to assure
the completion and accuracy of the record.

1. The Activity (which is a brief description of what you do)

2. Type of activity (whether it is meeting, an email, phone or others)
3. Name of the task
4. Title of project
5. Name or category of the project
6. The time length of the activity
7. Date of the task

Importance of Activity Management

1. It gives both the employer and the employees, information on the

performance of the personnel involved.
2. It helps to organize and emphasize the importance or relevance of the task
at hand.
3. It also helps to avoid miscommunications and mistakes of task repetition in
the workplace.