Management || Important facts || various definitions

 Management

Some important facts about management

• Father of administrative management Henry Fayol (1916)

• Father of scientific management Frederick Winslow Taylor or F. W. Taylor (1911)

• Father of modern management Peter Ferdinand Drucker 

• Father of Personnel Management Robert Owen

• Father of Bureaucracy management Weber 

• Father of economics Adam Smith

Different types of definitions of management given by different experts

• According to Henry Fayol

To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organise, to command, to co-ordinate, and to control.

• According to Mary Parker Follet

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

• According to F. W. Taylor

The art of knowledge what you want to do in best and cheapest way.

• According to Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Management is a multipurpose organ that manage a business, manage a manager, and manage work and worker.

• According to Allen

Management is what a manager does.

• According to Donald J. Caugh

Management is the art and science of decision making and leadership.