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Monday, June 28, 2010

Introduction


Introduction
Groups can achieve their goals only when the efforts of the people working together are properly coordinated and controlled.thus, the task of achieving goals through coordinating and controlling the activities of other people is known as management.Peter Drucker believes that the work of management is to make people productive.Managerial
efficiency is essential for becoming competitive in national and international arena.

The word ‘management’ can be explained as’manage-men-t’.it means managing men tactfully to get things done.In order to manage men,one has to understand the unpredictable human nature tactfully.Hence, it is very complicated and challenging activity.The term management has been defined in several ways.Views differ on the subject and it is difficult to find out any uniformity among them.Management is also a discipline,which involves the study of certain principles and practices.There are also persons who regard management as a group of persons charged with the responsibility of running a business.In view of Mary Parker Follet : “Management is the art of getting things done through people”. Hence,these meanings of management of management reflect different concepts of management.

According to Harold Koontz,
Management is the art of getting things done through and with people in formally organized groups.

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

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