| Business Management characterizes the process of | | | | increasingly difficult to subdivide management into |
| leading and directing all or part of an organization, | | | | functional categories in this way. More and more |
| often a business, through the deployment and | | | | processes simultaneously involve several categories. |
| manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, | | | | Instead, we tend to think in terms of the various |
| intellectual or intangible). Early twentieth-century | | | | processes, tasks, and objects subject to |
| business management writer Mary Parker Follett | | | | management.One consequence is that workplace |
| defined management as "the art of getting things | | | | democracy has become both more common, and |
| done through other people."One can also think of | | | | more advocated, in some places distributing all |
| business management functionally as the action of | | | | management functions among the workers, each of |
| measuring a quantity on a regular basis and of | | | | whom takes on a portion of the work. However, |
| adjusting some initial plan, and as the actions taken to | | | | these models predate any current political issue, and |
| reach one's intended goal. This applies even in | | | | may be more natural than command hierarchy.All |
| situations where planning does not take place. From | | | | management is to some degree democratic in that |
| this perspective, there are several major | | | | there must be majority support of workers for the |
| management functions, namely: planning, organizing, | | | | management in the long term, or they leave to find |
| leading, coordinating and controlling.Management is | | | | other work, or go on strike. Hence management is |
| known by some as "business administration", although | | | | becoming less based on the conceptualization of |
| this then excludes management in places outside | | | | classical military command-and-control, and more |
| business, e.g. charities and the public sector. University | | | | about facilitation and support of collaborative activity, |
| departments that teach management are | | | | utilizing principles such as those of human interaction |
| nonetheless usually called "business schools". The | | | | management to deal with the complexities of human |
| term "management" may also be used as a collective | | | | interaction.Ismael D. Tabije is the Publisher-Editor of a |
| word, describe the managers of an organization, for | | | | unique niche-topic article directory that features |
| example of a corporation.Today, we find it | | | | exclusively business and management topics. |