What is Management ?



Meaning:


                Management is an art of getting things done through other people with the effective utilization of available resources.



Definition of Management :

                
                     Donald J. Clough, " Management is the art and science of decision making and leadership".

            
                      F.W.Taylor, " Management is th art of knowing what you want to do and then seeing that it is done in the best and cheapest way".


                      R.M Currie, " Management is an organisation and control of human activity are directed towards specific ends".



                      Louis Allan, " Management is what a manager does".



                      G.E. Milward, " Management is the process and agency through which the execution of policy is planned and supervised".


                    
                       Joseph L.Massie, " Management is th eprocess by which a co-operative goroup directs actions towards common goals".




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