MEANING & DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT
Management is the art of getting things done by a group of people with the effective utilisation of available resources. An individual cannot be treated as a managing body running any organisation. A minimum of two persons are essential to form a management These persons perform the functions in order to achieve the objectives of an organisation.
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO PETER F DRUCKER
“Management is an organ; organs can be described and defined only through their functions.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO TERRY
“Management is not people; it is an activity like walking, reading, swimming or running. People who perform management can be designated as managers, members of management or executive leaders.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO RALPH C DAVIS
“Management is the function of executive leadership anywhere.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO MC FARLAND
“Management is defined for conceptual, theoretical and analytical purposes as that process by which managers create, direct, maintain and operate purposive organisation through systematic, co-ordinated co-operative human effort.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO LOUIS ALLAN
“Management is what a manager does.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO HENRY FAYOL
“To manage is to forecast and plan, to organise, to compound, to coordinate and to control.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO HAROLD KOONTZ
“Management is the art of getting things done through and with an informally organized group.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO WILLIAM SPRIEGAL
“Management is that function of an enterprise which concerns itself with direction and control of the various activities to attain business objectives. Management is essentially an executive function; it deals with the active direction of the human effort.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO ROSS MOORE
“Management means decision-making.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO STANLEY VANCE
“In essence, management is simply the process of decision making and control over the action of human beings for the express purpose of attaining pre-determined
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO DONALD J. CLOUGH
“Management is the art and science of decision making and leadership.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO KIMBALL AND KIMBALL
“Management embraces all duties and functions that pertain to the initiation of an enterprise, its financing, the establishment of all major policies, the provision of all necessary equipment, the outlining of the general form of organisation under which the enterprise is to operate and the selection of the principal officers.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO SIR CHARLES REYNOLD
“Management is the process of getting things done through the agency of a community. The functions of management are the handling of a community with a view to fulfilling the purposes for which it exists.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO JOSEPH L. MASSIE
“Management is the process by which a co-operative group directs actions towards common goals.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO ELMORE PETERSON AND E.G. PLOWMAN
“Management is a technique by means of which the purposes and objectives of a particular human group are determined, clarified and effectuated.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO E.F.L. BRECH
“Management is concerned with seeing that the job gets done, its tasks all centre on planning and guiding the operations that are going on in the enterprise.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO MARY CUSHING NILES
“Good management or scientific management, achieves a social objective with the best use of human and material energy and time and with satisfaction for the participants and the public.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO S. GEORGE
“Management consists of getting things done through others. Manager is one who accomplishes the objectives by directing the efforts of others.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO JAMES D. MOONEY AND ALAN C. REILEY
“Management is the art of directing and inspiring people.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO F.W. TAYLOR
“Management is the art of knowing what you want to do and then seeing that it is done in the best and cheapest way.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO LAWRENCE A. APPLEY
“Management is the art of getting things done through the efforts of other people. It concerns itself with guiding human and physical resources into a dynamic, hard-hitting organisation unit that attains its objectives to the satisfaction of those served and with a high degree of morale and sense of attainment on the part of those rendering the services”.
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO R.M. CURRIE
“The organisation and control of human activity are directed towards specific ends.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO JOHN D. MEE
“Management is the art of securing maximum results with a minimum of efforts so as to secure maximum prosperity for the employer and employee and give the public the best possible service.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
“The art of getting things done through other people.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO KOONTZ AND O’ DONNEL
“Management is the creation and maintenance of an internal environment in an enterprise where individuals, working in groups, can perform efficiently and effectively towards the attainment of group goals. It is the art of getting the work done through and with people in formally organised groups.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO DR. JAMES LUNDY
“Management is principally a task of planning, co-ordinating,” motivating and controlling the efforts of others towards a specific objective. It involves th combining of the traditional factors of production (land, labour and capital) in an optimum manner, paying due attention, of course, to the particular goals of the organisation.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO WHEELER
“Management is centred in the administrators or managers of the firm who integrate men, material and money into an effective operating limit.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO J.N. SCHULZE
“Management is the force which leads, guides and directs an organisation in the accomplishment of a pre-determined object.”
DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO OLIVER SCHELDON
“Management proper is the function in industry concerned in the execution of policy, within the limits set up by the administration and the employment of the organisation for the particular objectives set before it.”
ACCORDING TO KEITH AND GUBELLINI
“Management is the force that integrates men and physical plant into an effective operating unite”
ACCORDING TO NEWMAN, SUMMER AND WARREN
Newman, Summer and Warren, “The job of Management is to make co-operative endeavour to function properly. A manager is one who gets things done by working with people and other resources in order to reach an objective.”
ACCORDING TO G.E. MILWARD
“Management is the process and the agency through which the execution of policy is planned and supervised.”
ACCORDING TO ORDWAY TEAD
“Management is the process and agency which directs and guides the operations of an organisation in the realising of established aims.”
Management is the group of activities which drafts plans, prepares policies and arranges men, money, machine and materials required to achieve the objectives. The above definitions reveal that management is the activity of man who struggles for better living in the complex and competitive world. Besides, the management gives satisfaction to and rewards those who are engaged in the operation and ensuring an excellent performance. In other words, management is the process consisting of the functions of planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling the operations to achieve specified objectives.
