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• Management


  A distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, activating and controlling to determine and accomplish the objectives by the use of people and resources
• management


  • All those concerned with managing an organization
  • A group of people carrying out organized activities
• Manager


  A person in the organization who directs the activities of others
• First Line Managers


  • Usually called supervisors or foremen in manufacturing
• Middle Level Managers


  • Comprise all management levels between the organization's supervisory level and top level
  • May be called functional managers, heads of plants, and managers of projects
• Top Managers


  • Responsible for making organizational decisions and setting policies and strategies which affect all aspects of the organization
• Planning


  • Deciding in advance what is to be done
• Organizing


  Relating people and things to each other in such a way that they are all combined and interrelated into a unit capable of being directed toward the organizational objectives
• Staffing


  • Employing different types of people and performing different activities such as training, growth, evaluation, compensation, welfare
• Directing


  • Issuing orders, assignments and instructions that permit the subordinate to understand what is expected of them
• Commanding


  • Giving clear working instructions so employees know exactly what is required of them
  • Optimizing return from all employees by giving concrete instructions
• Controlling


  • Verifying whether everything is going according to plan
  • Ensuring activities are carried out in conformity with the plan
• Technical skills


  • Ability to work with resources, equipment, strategies, procedures
• Human skills


  • Ability to work well with other people both individually and in a group
• Conceptual skills


  • Ability to think of abstract ideas and contextualize them
  • Seeing the organization as a whole and the relationships between its different sub-units
  • Seeing how the organization fits into its wider context