Management and administration are terms that have been debated over their distinction and relationship. While some early authors viewed administration as decision-making and management as execution, more recent views see the terms as synonymous and describing the same broad functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, commanding, and controlling organizational resources and activities. The document discusses the historical controversy over defining management versus administration and the emerging modern consensus that they refer to the same managerial functions.
Management and administration are terms that have been debated over their distinction and relationship. While some early authors viewed administration as decision-making and management as execution, more recent views see the terms as synonymous and describing the same broad functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, commanding, and controlling organizational resources and activities. The document discusses the historical controversy over defining management versus administration and the emerging modern consensus that they refer to the same managerial functions.
Management and administration are terms that have been debated over their distinction and relationship. While some early authors viewed administration as decision-making and management as execution, more recent views see the terms as synonymous and describing the same broad functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, commanding, and controlling organizational resources and activities. The document discusses the historical controversy over defining management versus administration and the emerging modern consensus that they refer to the same managerial functions.
There has been some controversy over the use of the term management & administration. In 1923 , the conflict was raised by Oliver Sheldon when he emphasized administration as decision making function and management as execution function. American authors like Tead, Oliver, William consider administration as a broader activity and management ad narrow activity But British author like Kimball & kimball,Brech considered management wider than administration. The latest view is that there is no distinction between the two term, McFarland think these two term are synonymous. Management and administration are synonymous terms: