Management is the process of planning,organizing, actuating and controlling the activities of an organization in order to achieve the stated goals
Definition of management by different authors ;
- Mary parken follet defined management as getting things done.
- EFL Breech stated that management is concerned with seeing that things get done.
- Harold Koontz stated that management is the act of getting things done through and with other people in formally organized groups .it involves creating an environment in which people can perform cooperate towards achieving set goals.
- Peter Drucker stated that management is taking action in order to make desired results to pass
- Henry Fayol stated that management is to focus and forecast ,to organize ,to command ,to coordinate and control.
- Fredrick W Taylor stated that management is the act of knowing what to do and then seeing that it is done in the best and cheapest way