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Management: Management As An ART Management Is The Art of Getting Things Done Through Others

Management involves coordinating resources through planning, organizing, directing, and controlling to achieve goals. It requires getting tasks done through people, which is considered an art that uses different skills to motivate people. While management aims to complete objectives, it is also a social process that must consider an organization's technical and social subsystems.

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Management: Management As An ART Management Is The Art of Getting Things Done Through Others

Management involves coordinating resources through planning, organizing, directing, and controlling to achieve goals. It requires getting tasks done through people, which is considered an art that uses different skills to motivate people. While management aims to complete objectives, it is also a social process that must consider an organization's technical and social subsystems.

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Management

Management as an ART

Management is the art of getting things


done through others
1. Getting things done means to get tasks
and activities carried out . So
management is a highly performance
oriented function
2. Moreover getting things done through
people is considered as an Art - as
different skills are required to make
people work
3. Managers achieve results through their
subordinates instead of performing the
tasks themselves.
Limitations :

1. Management is much more than the task


of getting things done - social obligations
2. Organizations consists of two subsystems
– technical as well as social.
So management is art as well as
science
Management is the coordination of all
resources through the processes of
planning, organization, directing and
controlling in order to attain stated
goals
1. It highlights the true nature of a
manager’s job i.e. coordinating human
and other resources
2. It points out the functions of the manager

3. It stresses the fact that management


strives to achieve certain objectives
5 M’s of Management

1. Money
2. Manpower
3. Materials
4. Machinery
5. Methods
Nature / Characteristics

1. Universal Process
2. Purposeful
3. Creative
4. Integrative Force
5. Group Phenomenon
6. Social Process
7. Multidisciplinary
8. Continuous Process
9. Intangible
10. Both Science and Art
Is Management

A Profession ??
1. A well defined and Organised Body of
Knowledge
2. Learning and Experience
3. Entry restricted by qualification
4. Recognised National Body
5. Ethical Code of Conduct
6. Dominance of Service Motive
Levels of Management
Board of Directors

Managing Director

Executive Directors

Marketing Manager Finance Manager Personnel Manager

Branch Manager Chief Accountant Labor Officers

Sale Officers Finance Officers


Functions of Top Level Management
1. To provide a basic sense of direction to the activities of the company by
setting its long range mission and translating into clear set of objectives

2. To design the organization structure of the company in terms of


differentiated and integrated activities, role of various positions, authority
& responsibility between them.

3. Top management must ensure the quality of personnel in terms of their


skills, orientations and commitment

4. To ensure that the resource conversion and exchange systems are


designed and operated efficiently.

5. Periodic review of objectives for necessary modifications is a part of this


function
Functions of Middle Level Management

• To interpret and explain the plans and policies


formulated by top management
• To monitor & control the operating performance
• To cooperate among themselves so as to
integrate the various activities of a department
• To train, motivate and develop supervisory
personnel; and
• To lay down rules & regulations to be followed
by supervisory personnel.
Functions of Lower Level Management

• To plan day to day production within the goal laid down by


higher authorities
• To assign jobs to workers and to make arrangements for
their training and development
• To issue orders & instructions
• To supervise & control workers’ operations and to maintain
personal contact with them
• To arrange materials and tools and to maintain machinery
• To advise & assist workers by explaining work procedures,
solving their problems etc.
• To maintain discipline and good human relations among
workers
• To report feedback information and workers’ problems to
the higher authorities.
Managerial Skills

• Conceptual Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Behavioral or Inter-personal Skills
• Administrative Skills
• Technical Skills
Effective management has become all the
more important in the modern era due to the
following development :

• Growing size and complexity of organizations


• Advancement in technology
• Cut throat competition
• Uncertain business environment
• Need for optimum utilization of scarce
resources
• Growth of trade union movement

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