Management

1. Planning: Includes defining goals, establishing strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities.
   
   
2. Organising: Determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where decisions are to be made.
   
   
3. Leading: Includes motivating subordinates, directing others, selecting the most effective communication channels, and resolving conflicts.
   
   
4. Controlling: Monitoring activities to ensure that they are being accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations.

management n.

1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in "Management decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed `The Mgt'; this derives from the "Illuminatus" novels (see the Bibliography in Appendix C).

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Man"age*ment (?), n. [From Manage, v.]

1.

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.

E. Porter.

2.

Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.

He had great managements with ecclesiastics. Addison

3.

Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.

Mark with what management their tribes divide Some stick to you, and some to t'other side. Dryden.

4.

The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.

Syn. -- Conduct; administration; government; direction; guidance; care; charge; contrivance; intrigue.

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