Definition of Management.

There are several experts scholars authors define Management in several ways some areas below.

1. According to Lawrence A Appley Management is the development of people and not the direction of things.

2. According to Joseph Massie Management is defined as the process by which a cooperative group directs action towards a common goal.

3. According to George R Terry Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling performed to determine and accomplish the objectives by the use of people and resources.

4. According to James L Lundy Management is principally the task of planning, coordinating motivating, and controlling the efforts of others towards a specific objective.

5. According to Henry Fayol To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate, and to control.

6. According to Peter F Drucker Management is a multi-purpose organ that manages a business and manages managers and manages workers and work.

7. According to J N Schulze Management is the force that leads guides and directs an organization in the accomplishment of a predetermined object.

8. According to Koontz and O Donnel Management is defined as the creation and maintenance of an internal environment in an enterprise where individuals working together in groups can perform efficiently and effectively towards the attainment of group goals.

9. According to Dalton E Mc Farland Management is the fundamental integrating and operating mechanism underlying organized efforts.

10. According to Ordway Tead Management is the process and agency which directs and guides the operations of an organization in realizing established aims.