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Concept of Management

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Estimated time: 15 minutes
CBSE: Class 12
Maharashtra State Board: Class 11

Meaning

  • Management is the process of getting things done with the help of others and through people.
  • It involves working with and through people to accomplish organizational goals.
  • Management is needed wherever people work in groups for a common purpose.
  • It is described as a creative force that helps in the best utilization of available resources.
Maharashtra State Board: Class 11

Definition: Management

  1. Mary Parker Follett: “Management is an art of getting things done through others.”
  2. Henry Fayol: “To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate, and to control.”
  3. Fredrick Winslow Taylor: “Management is knowing exactly what is to be done and seeing that it is done in the best possible manner.”
  4. George Terry: “Management is the process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling, performed to determine and accomplish the objectives by the use of people and resources.”
  5. Harold Koontz and Heinz Weihrich: “Management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims.”
  6. Robert L. Trewelly and M. Gene Newport: “Management is defined as t he process of planning, organising, actuating and controlling an organisation’s operations in order to achieve coordination of the human and material resources essential in the effective and efficient attainment of objectives.”
  7. Kreitner: “Management is the process of working with and through others to effectively achieve organisational objectives by efficiently using limited resources in the changing environment.” 
CBSE: Class 12

Effectiveness vs. Efficiency

Aspect Effectiveness Efficiency
Meaning Doing the right tasks / achieving the set goals Using minimum resources with minimum cost
Focus Goal achievement Resource utilization
Relationship Concerned with what is done Concerned with how it is done
  • Management aims to balance both effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Efficiency without effectiveness (doing wrong things well) is wasteful.
  • Effectiveness without efficiency (doing right things but wastefully) is costly.
CBSE: Class 12
Maharashtra State Board: Class 11

Characteristics

  • Management is an ancient and universal activity — practised since early family and business organisation.
  • Management is required in all types of organisations — business, family, and others.
  • Managers guide diverse efforts of different people toward common objectives.
  • The role of a manager is to optimise resources — human, material, and financial.
  • Management involves the functions of: planning, organising, staffing/actuating, and controlling.
CBSE: Class 12
Maharashtra State Board: Class 11

Key Point Summary

  • Management is the process of getting things done with and through people to achieve organisational goals.
  • It is a universal and ancient activity applicable to all group situations.
  • A manager must balance effectiveness (achieving goals) and efficiency (minimising resource use).
  • Management involves four key functions: planning, organising, actuating, and controlling.
  • The ultimate aim of management is to optimise scarce resources in a changing environment.
  • Management acts as a creative force that coordinates human and material resources for goal attainment.
  • Wherever people work in groups, management is required to direct their efforts toward shared objectives.

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