Noun

Singular management

Plural usually uncountable; plural managements

management (usually uncountable; plural managements)

  1. (uncountable, management) administration; the process or practice of managing.
  2. (management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
  3. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
    Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.

Synonyms

  • (process or practice of managing): mgt, mgmt

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terms derived from management

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Sun Sep 6 02:26:49 2009

Management in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act(s) of management.

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Thu Sep 3 17:14:08 2009

What is the exact term to the management's sinister move of promoting an employee then sack him later?
Q. A classic example is that the management want to rid a number of employees, probably a union members, but labor laws discouraged them to sack them outrightly. Now the management will promote them to a newly created section. If these employees take the bait, this section will be closed later with all conceivable justifications and they can no longer be re-assigned by the management since their previous positions have already been occupied. This will give the management all the reasons to sack these employees.
Asked by Marriage Counselor - Sun May 25 21:34:03 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
What is the difference between hotel management and business management?
Q. I have worked in hotels for eight years and I have decided to go to school to better my career. My husband is going to school for business management but I'm not sure which one. Can anyone help?
Asked by mcamp1107 - Wed Jul 1 00:41:50 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. In terms of business administration, there isn't really that much of a difference. A hotel is a company selling a product. Big chain hotels function as multinational companies just like any other. Hotels as companies follow the same business laws but have some specific industry laws (reimbursement, accounting, VAT breakdown, insurance, etc.) However, every sector has its specific laws. The main difference is that a hotel sells services to clients that come into the hotel to consume the product (roomnight, seminar, dinner, etc). A "non service" company will sell a product to a customer who will take the product somewhere else to consume (car, washing machine, etc.). So the selling/marketing process works differently. But that doesn't… [cont.]
Answered by chou de bxl - Thu Jul 2 10:57:40 2009

What is a good management concept to teach?
Q. I have to do a student teaching project for a class and incorporate management concepts such as time management or money management. Any one have some good ideas that I could teach.
Asked by bluesugarprincess - Sun Mar 4 23:26:20 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Teach how to plan a family vacation, shows good management concepts.
Answered by delphina0723 - Tue Mar 6 00:52:17 2007

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  • If Peter Drucker is responsible for legitimizing the field of management and Tom Peters for popularizing it, then Charles Handy should be known as the person who gave it a philosophical elegance and eloquence that was missing from the field.
    • Warren Bennis, leadership and management scholar and writer
  • It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
    • Jim Collins leadership and management researcher and author, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't and Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
  • Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement. Mission has an eternal quality. Goals are time bound and once achieved, are replaced by others.
    • Patrick Dixon, futurist and business thinker, Building a Better Business - the key to management, marketing and motivation
  • The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
    • Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't and Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
  • Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?