
"Management" (from Old French ''ménagement'' "the art of conducting, directing", from Latin ''manu agere'' "to lead by the hand") characterises the process of leadership and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human resources , financial, material, intellectual or intangible). One can also think of management functionally, as the action of measuring a quantity on a regular basis and of adjusting some initial plan, and as the actions taken to reach one's intended goal. This applies even in situations where planning does not take place. Situational management may precede and subsume purposive management. A governing body is a term used to describe a group formed to manage an organization, such as a sports league. ==Historical development== Some writers trace the development of management thought back to Sumerian traders and ancient Egyptian pyramid builders. Slavery through the centuries faced the problems of exploiting/motivating a dependent but sometimes recalcitrant workforce, but many pre-industrial enterprises, given their small scale, did not feel compelled to face the issues of management systematically. But innovations such as the spread of Arabic numerals (5th to 15th centuries) and the codification of double-entry book-keeping (1494) provided tools for management assessment, planning and control. ===19th century=== Modern management as a discipline began as an off-shoot of economics in the 19th century. Classical economics s such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill provided a theoretical background to resource allocation, production, and pricing issues. About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney, James Watt, and Matthew Boulton developed technical production elements such as standardization, quality control procedures, cost accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work planning. By the middle of the 19th century, Robert Owen, Henry Poor, and M. Laughlin and others introduced the human element with theories of worker training, motivation, organizational structure and span of control. Compare the analyses of Karl Marx and of Friedrich Engels. By the late 19th century, Marginal theory of value Alfred Marshall and Leon Walras and others introduced a new layer of complexity to the theoretical underpinings of management. Joseph Wharton offered the first tertiary-level course in management in 1881. By about 1900 we find managers trying to place their theories on a thoroughly scientific basis. Examples include Henry Towne's ''Science of management'' in the 1890s, Frederick Winslow Taylor's ''Scientific management'' (1911), Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth 's ''Applied motion study'' (1917), and Henry L. Gantt's charts (1910s). J. Duncan wrote the first college management text book in 1911. ===20th century=== The first comprehensive theories of management appeared around 1920. People like Henri Fayol and Alexander Church described the various branches of management and their inter-relationships. In the early 20th century, people like Ordwat Tead, Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo, Mary Follett , Chester Barnard, Max Weber, Rensis Likert, and Chris Argyris approached the phenomenon of management from a sociology perspective. Peter Drucker wrote one of the earliest books on applied management: ''Concept of the Corporation'' (published in 1946). It resulted from Alfred Sloan (chairman of General Motors until 1956) commissioning a study of the organisation. Drucker went on to write 32 books, many in the same vein. H. Dodge, Ronald Fisher, and Thorton C Fry introduced statistical techniques into management. In the 1940s, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett combined these statistical theories with microeconomics theory and gave birth to the science of operations research. Operations research, sometimes known as "management science", attempts to take a science approach to solving management problems, particularly in the areas of logistics and operations. Some of the more recent developments include the theory of constraints, reengineering, and various information technology driven theories such as agile software development. The theory of constraints approach describes management decision-making as a continuous cycle of three basic questions — # What to change? # To what to change? # How to make the change happen? As the general recognition of managers as a class solidified during the 20th century and gave perceived practitioners of management a certain amount of prestige, so the way opened for popularised systems of management ideas to peddle their wares. In this context many management fads may have had more to do with pop psychology than with scientific management theory. Towards the end of the 20th century, management came to consist of a number of separate branches, including: * Human resources management * Operations or production management * Strategic management * Marketing management * Finance * management information systems ===21st century=== In the 21st century we find it increasingly difficult to subdivide management into categories in this way. More and more processes simultaneously involve several categories. Instead, we tend to think in terms of the various processes, tasks, and objects subject to management. It is also the case that many of the assumptions of managerialism have been under attack from business ethics, critical management studies, and anti-corporate activism. ==Areas of management== *Change management *Communication management *Constraint management *Cost management *Crisis management *Customer relationship management *Earned value management *Enterprise management *Facility management *Integration management *Knowledge management *Marketing management *Micromanagement *Pain management *Perception management *Procurement management *Program management *Project management *Process management *Product management *Quality management *Resource management *Risk management *Skills management *Spend management *Supply chain management *Systems management *Talent Manager *Time management *Stress management ==Related topics== *list of management topics *list of marketing topics *list of human resource management topics *list of economics topics *list of finance topics *list of accounting topics *list of information technology management topics *list of production topics *list of business law topics *list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics *list of business theorists *list of economists *list of corporate leaders *list of companies ==See also== *Adhocracy *Engineering management *Management consulting *Management development *Management Technology *Middle management *Poor management *Senior management *Strategic management *Virtual management *Peter Drucker's management by objectives *Eliyahu M. Goldratt's theory of constraints *Pointy Haired Boss —negative stereotypes of managers ==External links== *[http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net Management Theories] *[http://www.mapnp.org/library/ Free Management Library] *[http://www.adviceonmanagement.com Famous Quotes on Management] Management occupations Management Organizations bn:ব্যবস্থাপনা
I cut two outside links that were links a book and another to a consulting firm. Blatant self-promotion. I cut this from the management page: ----- The people doing management have gotten a bad reputation as shown in the following quote: :''Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny -- Elbert Hubbard'' It may be that bad management is a consequence of a lack of skills in the people doing the managing. Or it may be that bad management is the tendency for people to blame the skill level of individuals for problems inherent in the system. ------ Does this belong under bad management, or under Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense? Or maybe nowhere? And who is "Elbert Hubbard"? Any relation to "L. Ron Hubbard"? :-) - Rootbeer 2002-04-07 No, keep it here. Maybee someone can fix it. --user:maveric149, Sunday, April 7, 2002 ---- Community management is currently an orphan. Please can someone who knows about this topic find a place to link it to or merge it with. Or maybe list it at VfD if there's no point to it. User:Angela ---- I have removed: RECENT EVENTS Since 2002, the global step of reduction of costs and optimization of resources became a legal constraint, an obligation for all the highly-rated corporations or unquoted in the stock exchange. Everything began with the law SARBANNES-OXLEY in the United States in 2002 who returned compulsory internal control. From 2003, Canada and European Economic Community took measures aiming at identical objectives: 1- The realization and optimization of the operations of reduction of costs and management of the performance; 2- The reliability of the financial information of costs and performances; 3- Correspondence to laws and to current regulations, notably standards of management of the quality; 4- The implementation of the rules of good governance “to play collective” : -Every individual member of the company contributes to his level of responsibility in the internal control; -The responsibilities of the staff of frame vary according to hierarchical levels; - The general manager assures ultimate responsibility; he is responsible for the system of internal control; -The directors of the various units are responsible for the internal control bound to the objectives of this one; -The financial executives and their teams play a role of dominating piloting: they follow and analyze performances, by report not only in objectives bound to financial information, but also to those bound to the operations of the company and to the legal obligations. These measures which impose the internal coherence as base of the management put company in front of a major technological challenge: the integration of their system of internal control. Internal control directed towards “realization and optimization of the operations of reduction of costs and management of the performance" gets organized indeed around the notion of inductors of costs, the unforeseen phenomenon, the abnormality or the dysfunction which provokes an increase of costs. By opposition the inductor of activity is the event which activates the activity of the company. To understand difficulty recovering, it is necessary remember yourself that the most known methods of management arise from the cost accounting which depends on the financial accounting itself. So very wide-spread methods such as the ABC (ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING), the ABM (ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT), “Cost killer””, etc., rest on the inductor of activity and not on the inductor of costs. It is only very recently that multi-field searches in management drove to the normalization of the inductor of costs and to its standardization through the new technologies of information and the communication. To see : * Internal control * Integration of the internal control It would be better put elsewhere, Maybe cost management ot corporate governance. User:Mydogategodshat 06:29, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Business Administration vs. Management == I was redirected to Management from Business Administration. I was under the impression that Business Administration deals with the functions of the business: marketing, finance, human resources, operations, etc., and Management deals with managing people and organizations. Shouldn't there be a distinction? Management may be a function of a business, just like marketing. :I don't think very many people make the distinction between management and administration any more. Business processes and functions have become too interconnected. It has become a reengineering world. User:Mydogategodshat 04:39, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Football? == Nothing at all on football management? The manager of a football team is a pretty important and very high profile person (and in Britain at least, very often not the same person as the coach (sports)), so I'm surprised, unless there's an unlinked article at manager (football) or the like. User:Loganberry (User talk:Loganberry) 01:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :An article on Sports management would be great. Do you know enough about the topic to start one? User:Mydogategodshat 04:42, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::Sadly not; I might be able to contribute bits and pieces on the role of managers in one or two sports (cricket, for example), but I don't have the knowledge to write a full article, partly because I know relatively little about football, which is the British sport where the manager's role is most prominent. User:Loganberry (User talk:Loganberry) 05:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::I have no experience in sports management so I would not be able to write it either. User:Mydogategodshat 05:11, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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I would like to insert a link from here to http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ManagementRoadMap which is in the original wiki. I am not a regular here. Can someone give me some views whether it is a good idea? Please leave a note at http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MicrosoftSlave if any regular contributor of this topic is listening. Thanks from David
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"Management" (from Old French ''ménagement'' "the art of conducting, directing", from Latin ''manu agere'' "to lead by the hand") characterises the process of leadership and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human resources , financial, material, intellectual or intangible). One can also think of management functionally, as the action of measuring a quantity on a regular basis and of adjusting some initial plan, and as the actions taken to reach one's intended goal. This applies even in situations where planning does not take place. Situational management may precede and subsume purposive management. A governing body is a term used to describe a group formed to manage an organization, such as a sports league. ==Historical development== Some writers trace the development of management thought back to Sumerian traders and ancient Egyptian pyramid builders. Slavery through the centuries faced the problems of exploiting/motivating a dependent but sometimes recalcitrant workforce, but many pre-industrial enterprises, given their small scale, did not feel compelled to face the issues of management systematically. But innovations such as the spread of Arabic numerals (5th to 15th centuries) and the codification of double-entry book-keeping (1494) provided tools for management assessment, planning and control. ===19th century=== Modern management as a discipline began as an off-shoot of economics in the 19th century. Classical economics s such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill provided a theoretical background to resource allocation, production, and pricing issues. About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney, James Watt, and Matthew Boulton developed technical production elements such as standardization, quality control procedures, cost accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work planning. By the middle of the 19th century, Robert Owen, Henry Poor, and M. Laughlin and others introduced the human element with theories of worker training, motivation, organizational structure and span of control. Compare the analyses of Karl Marx and of Friedrich Engels. By the late 19th century, Marginal theory of value Alfred Marshall and Leon Walras and others introduced a new layer of complexity to the theoretical underpinings of management. Joseph Wharton offered the first tertiary-level course in management in 1881. By about 1900 we find managers trying to place their theories on a thoroughly scientific basis. Examples include Henry Towne's ''Science of management'' in the 1890s, Frederick Winslow Taylor's ''Scientific management'' (1911), Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth 's ''Applied motion study'' (1917), and Henry L. Gantt's charts (1910s). J. Duncan wrote the first college management text book in 1911. ===20th century=== The first comprehensive theories of management appeared around 1920. People like Henri Fayol and Alexander Church described the various branches of management and their inter-relationships. In the early 20th century, people like Ordwat Tead, Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo, Mary Follett , Chester Barnard, Max Weber, Rensis Likert, and Chris Argyris approached the phenomenon of management from a sociology perspective. Peter Drucker wrote one of the earliest books on applied management: ''Concept of the Corporation'' (published in 1946). It resulted from Alfred Sloan (chairman of General Motors until 1956) commissioning a study of the organisation. Drucker went on to write 32 books, many in the same vein. H. Dodge, Ronald Fisher, and Thorton C Fry introduced statistical techniques into management. In the 1940s, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett combined these statistical theories with microeconomics theory and gave birth to the science of operations research. Operations research, sometimes known as "management science", attempts to take a science approach to solving management problems, particularly in the areas of logistics and operations. Some of the more recent developments include the theory of constraints, reengineering, and various information technology driven theories such as agile software development. The theory of constraints approach describes management decision-making as a continuous cycle of three basic questions — # What to change? # To what to change? # How to make the change happen? As the general recognition of managers as a class solidified during the 20th century and gave perceived practitioners of management a certain amount of prestige, so the way opened for popularised systems of management ideas to peddle their wares. In this context many management fads may have had more to do with pop psychology than with scientific management theory. Towards the end of the 20th century, management came to consist of a number of separate branches, including: * Human resources management * Operations or production management * Strategic management * Marketing management * Finance * management information systems ===21st century=== In the 21st century we find it increasingly difficult to subdivide management into categories in this way. More and more processes simultaneously involve several categories. Instead, we tend to think in terms of the various processes, tasks, and objects subject to management. It is also the case that many of the assumptions of managerialism have been under attack from business ethics, critical management studies, and anti-corporate activism. ==Areas of management== *Change management *Communication management *Constraint management *Cost management *Crisis management *Customer relationship management *Earned value management *Enterprise management *Facility management *Integration management *Knowledge management *Marketing management *Micromanagement *Pain management *Perception management *Procurement management *Program management *Project management *Process management *Product management *Quality management *Resource management *Risk management *Skills management *Spend management *Supply chain management *Systems management *Talent Manager *Time management *Stress management ==Related topics== *list of management topics *list of marketing topics *list of human resource management topics *list of economics topics *list of finance topics *list of accounting topics *list of information technology management topics *list of production topics *list of business law topics *list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics *list of business theorists *list of economists *list of corporate leaders *list of companies ==See also== *Adhocracy *Engineering management *Management consulting *Management development *Management Technology *Middle management *Poor management *Senior management *Strategic management *Virtual management *Peter Drucker's management by objectives *Eliyahu M. Goldratt's theory of constraints *Pointy Haired Boss —negative stereotypes of managers ==External links== *[http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net Management Theories] *[http://www.mapnp.org/library/ Free Management Library] *[http://www.adviceonmanagement.com Famous Quotes on Management] Management occupations Management Organizations bn:ব্যবস্থাপনা
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I cut two outside links that were links a book and another to a consulting firm. Blatant self-promotion. I cut this from the management page: ----- The people doing management have gotten a bad reputation as shown in the following quote: :''Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny -- Elbert Hubbard'' It may be that bad management is a consequence of a lack of skills in the people doing the managing. Or it may be that bad management is the tendency for people to blame the skill level of individuals for problems inherent in the system. ------ Does this belong under bad management, or under Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense? Or maybe nowhere? And who is "Elbert Hubbard"? Any relation to "L. Ron Hubbard"? :-) - Rootbeer 2002-04-07 No, keep it here. Maybee someone can fix it. --user:maveric149, Sunday, April 7, 2002 ---- Community management is currently an orphan. Please can someone who knows about this topic find a place to link it to or merge it with. Or maybe list it at VfD if there's no point to it. User:Angela ---- I have removed: RECENT EVENTS Since 2002, the global step of reduction of costs and optimization of resources became a legal constraint, an obligation for all the highly-rated corporations or unquoted in the stock exchange. Everything began with the law SARBANNES-OXLEY in the United States in 2002 who returned compulsory internal control. From 2003, Canada and European Economic Community took measures aiming at identical objectives: 1- The realization and optimization of the operations of reduction of costs and management of the performance; 2- The reliability of the financial information of costs and performances; 3- Correspondence to laws and to current regulations, notably standards of management of the quality; 4- The implementation of the rules of good governance “to play collective” : -Every individual member of the company contributes to his level of responsibility in the internal control; -The responsibilities of the staff of frame vary according to hierarchical levels; - The general manager assures ultimate responsibility; he is responsible for the system of internal control; -The directors of the various units are responsible for the internal control bound to the objectives of this one; -The financial executives and their teams play a role of dominating piloting: they follow and analyze performances, by report not only in objectives bound to financial information, but also to those bound to the operations of the company and to the legal obligations. These measures which impose the internal coherence as base of the management put company in front of a major technological challenge: the integration of their system of internal control. Internal control directed towards “realization and optimization of the operations of reduction of costs and management of the performance" gets organized indeed around the notion of inductors of costs, the unforeseen phenomenon, the abnormality or the dysfunction which provokes an increase of costs. By opposition the inductor of activity is the event which activates the activity of the company. To understand difficulty recovering, it is necessary remember yourself that the most known methods of management arise from the cost accounting which depends on the financial accounting itself. So very wide-spread methods such as the ABC (ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING), the ABM (ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT), “Cost killer””, etc., rest on the inductor of activity and not on the inductor of costs. It is only very recently that multi-field searches in management drove to the normalization of the inductor of costs and to its standardization through the new technologies of information and the communication. To see : * Internal control * Integration of the internal control It would be better put elsewhere, Maybe cost management ot corporate governance. User:Mydogategodshat 06:29, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Business Administration vs. Management == I was redirected to Management from Business Administration. I was under the impression that Business Administration deals with the functions of the business: marketing, finance, human resources, operations, etc., and Management deals with managing people and organizations. Shouldn't there be a distinction? Management may be a function of a business, just like marketing. :I don't think very many people make the distinction between management and administration any more. Business processes and functions have become too interconnected. It has become a reengineering world. User:Mydogategodshat 04:39, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Football? == Nothing at all on football management? The manager of a football team is a pretty important and very high profile person (and in Britain at least, very often not the same person as the coach (sports)), so I'm surprised, unless there's an unlinked article at manager (football) or the like. User:Loganberry (User talk:Loganberry) 01:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :An article on Sports management would be great. Do you know enough about the topic to start one? User:Mydogategodshat 04:42, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::Sadly not; I might be able to contribute bits and pieces on the role of managers in one or two sports (cricket, for example), but I don't have the knowledge to write a full article, partly because I know relatively little about football, which is the British sport where the manager's role is most prominent. User:Loganberry (User talk:Loganberry) 05:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::I have no experience in sports management so I would not be able to write it either. User:Mydogategodshat 05:11, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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I would like to insert a link from here to http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ManagementRoadMap which is in the original wiki. I am not a regular here. Can someone give me some views whether it is a good idea? Please leave a note at http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MicrosoftSlave if any regular contributor of this topic is listening. Thanks from David
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