Management Principles and practices
Name : Nita Khatri (MBA GIA)
Roll No : 123048
Topic : Difference between Administration and Management
What is management?
• Management encompasses the process of strategically planning, organizing
resources, coordinating efforts, directing activities, and maintaining control
within an organization to achieve its intended goals and objectives.
• It involves making informed decisions, optimizing resource allocation,
fostering collaboration among teams, providing leadership, and monitoring
progress to ensure alignment with established benchmarks.
What is administration?
• Administration involves overseeing an organization’s day-to-day operations,
ensuring they run smoothly by implementing policies and decisions set by
management.
• Administrators play a vital role in policy implementation, making certain
that guidelines are followed and organizational goals are pursued.
What’s the key difference?
• Management is primarily concerned with planning, organizing,
directing, and controlling resources to achieve organizational goals
while Administration focuses on establishing policies, guidelines,
and procedures to ensure the smooth operation of the organization.
Difference between management and administration
Basis Management Administration
Meaning Management encompasses the process of Administration involves overseeing an
strategically planning, organizing organization’s day-to-day operations,
resources, coordinating efforts, directing ensuring they run smoothly by
activities, and maintaining control within implementing policies and decisions set
an organization to achieve its intended by management.
goals and objectives.
Focus Management is primarily concerned with Administration focuses on establishing
planning, organizing, directing, and policies, guidelines, and procedures to
controlling resources to achieve ensure the smooth operation of the
organizational goals. organization.
Scope Management is a broader term that Administration is a narrower term, often
encompasses various functions such as associated with the implementation of
planning, organizing, staffing, leading, policies, rules, and regulations set by the
and controlling. management.
Manager is the key person in the case of Administrator is the key person in the
Key Person management. case of administration.
Decision Managers make strategic decisions Administrators make decisions related to
Making related to setting goals, formulating implementing policies, procedures, and
plans, and allocating resources. guidelines set by the management.
Nature It is more dynamic, action-oriented, and It is more concerned with establishing a
focused on achieving objectives through stable framework, ensuring adherence to
efficient resource utilization. rules, and maintaining order within the
organization.
Function Management involves guiding, directing, Management involves guiding, directing,
and leading employees toward achieving and leading employees toward achieving
organizational goals. organizational goals.
Role The role of management is executive in The role of administration is decisive in
nature. nature.
