MANAGING ORGANISATION

& HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AT

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 Management
• Management word is drawn from the old
French word,” me’nagement” i.e. “ the art
of conducting, directing,’
• Latin word” manum agera” i.e. lead by the
hand.
• The process of leading and directing all or
part of an organisation, often a business,
through the deployment and manipulation
of resources.
 Management Defined
• Henry Fayol: “ To mange is to forecast and plan, to
organize, to compound, to coordinate and to control.”
• Peter F. Drucker “ Management is an organ; organs
can be described and defined only through their
functions.”
• McFarland : “ Management is defined for conceptual,
theoretical and analytical purposes as that process by
which managers create, direct, maintain and operate
purposive organisation through systematic, coordinated
cooperative human effort.”
 Management Defined
• Harold Koontz: “ Management is the art of
getting things done through and within
formally organized group.”
• Mary Parker Follett: “ Management is the
art of getting things done through people”
• George R. Terry: “ a process consisting of
planning , organising, actuating and
controlling, performed to determine and
accomplish the objectives by the use of
people and other resources.”
 Management defined
• David Van Fleet & Tim Peterson: “ as a
set of activities directed at the efficient and
effective utilization of resources in the
pursuit of one or more goals.”
• R. Krietner: “Management is a problem
solving process of effectively achieving
organisational objectives through the
efficient use of scarce resources in a
changing environment.”
 Management
• Management is the sum-total of all these
activities:
– Determine objectives, plans, policies and
programmes
– Secure men, material, machinery
– Put all these resources into operations through
sound organisation
– Direct and motivate the men at work
– Supervise and control their performance
– Provide maximum prosperity and happiness to
both employer and employees and public at large