Noun

Singular management

Plural usually uncountable; plural managements

management (usually uncountable; plural managements)

1. (uncountable, management) administration; the process or practice of managing.
2. (management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
3. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

   Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.

Synonyms

• (process or practice of managing): mgt, mgmt

Related terms

• manager
• managerial

Derived terms

• advanced traffic management
• anger management
• content management system
• cross-platform application management
• change management
• database management system
• inventory management
• knowledge management
• data management
• document management system
• master data management

• micromanagement
• time management
• management cybernetics
• strategic management
• Human Resource Management
• risk management
• package management system
• performance management system
• project management
• soil management

Management in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act(s) of management.

• If Peter Drucker is responsible for legitimizing the field of management and Tom Peters for popularizing it, then Charles Handy should be known as the person who gave it a philosophical elegance and eloquence that was missing from the field.
  • Warren Bennis, leadership and management scholar and writer

• It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
  • Jim Collins leadership and management researcher and author, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't and Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

• Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement. Mission has an eternal quality. Goals are time bound and once achieved, are replaced by others.
  • Patrick Dixon, futurist and business thinker, Building a Better Business - the key to management, marketing and motivation

• The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
  • Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't and Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

• Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
  • Charles Handy, leadership and management scholar

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