July 19, 2024

Basic Management Theory - Principles of Management and Practice in Various Business Functions

 Definition of Management - F.W. Taylor

Management is  knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way. - F.W. Taylor.

The art of management has been defined, "as knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way.

Definition of Management - F.W. Taylor

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Business is exchange of goods or services. There are  production-supply function and marketing-selling function in any business at the core. There is division of labor and  more specialized functions are now existence.

Management of a business of an individual or of a firm starts at the instant one person has thought of doing business to earn income. Once the actual business of producing and exchanging or selling the goods or services start it is conceived as an ongoing business. No doubt individuals stop doing business and business firms are closed. So in practice we can see many business closures. In a broad way, management of business extends from the instant an idea to do business germinates in a person's mind to the instant it is closed.

In modern terminology, the important steps or functions in a management are: 

Planning: Deciding whether there is a profitable business opportunity are not?

Organizing: Determining which resources or needed to do the business and their division into units allocated to specific individuals to use them and do business activities. The activities include operational activities and managerial activities. Managerial activities keep taking place all the time in a business. 

Resourcing: All resources identified as requirement for doing a business or business activity are to be acquired and provided to the individuals to do activities.

Directing: The individuals appointed to do business and managerial activities have to be directed by the managers concerned in the outputs required and the process to be used.

Controlling: After giving directions, managers to observe and check or measure whether the activities are giving desired outputs and performance. If there is a gap, they have to take managerial actions to reduce the gap.



Review of Evolution of Management in Various Business Functions - Departments

1. Evolution of Management Thought and Theory
2. Evolution of Scientific Management
3. Principles and Laws of Management - Taylor (1903 & 1911) and Gillette & Dana (1909)
4. Science and Philosophy of Management - A. Hamilton Church (1914) & Oliver Sheldon (1924)
5. Principles of Management - Henri Fayol (1916), Koontz & O'Donnell
6. Evolution of Production Management 
7. Evolution of Productivity Management
8. Evolution of Marketing Management
9. Evolution of Human Resource Management
10. Evolution of Organizational Behavior
11. Evolution of Accounting
12. Evolution of Financial Management
13. Evolution of Supply Management and Supply Chain Management
14. Evolution of Business Logistics Management
15. Industrial Management - Evolution of The Subject


Management - Etymology of the Word.


OED's earliest evidence for management is from 1598, in the writing of John Florio, author and teacher of languages.

John Florio and the introduction of management into the English vocabulary
April 2012, Journal of Management History 18(2):129-136
18(2):129-136
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275110668_John_Florio_and_the_introduction_of_management_into_the_English_vocabulary

https://www.proquest.com/docview/963344774?sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/17511341211206816/full/html?skipTracking=true




Interesting 1791

A treatise on the culture of the cucumber; shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant, with full directions for the management thereof, and the degree of heat it requires on every day of the year; and a meteorological journal of the weather and temperature of the climate in lat. 51 20£ north, long. 0 1£ east of London. By James M'Phail 

Search Results for Books on Management during 1700-1790

Interesting 1835

The philosophy of manufactures : or, An exposition of the scientific, moral and commercial economy of the factory system of Great Britain / by Andrew Ure, 1835
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008164140&seq=10

Interesting - Third Book within it. Moral Economy of the Factory System.


"Philosophers, in every age of the world, have contrasted the supineness of the beneficent principle in man, with the activity of the malevolent; but, satisfied with stating the fact, they left it as a problem for revelation to solve."  In page 282


Search Results - Factory Management - 1830-1839



https://fhsu.pressbooks.pub/management/chapter/the-history-of-management/


The Origin of Management is Sustainability: Recovering an Alternative Foundation for Management
Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman
Published Online:30 Nov 2017https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2014.25
https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/ambpp.2014.25

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276892538_The_Origin_of_Management_is_Sustainability_Recovering_an_Alternative_Foundation_for_Management



The new science of management decision
H.A. Simon
1960






Thoughts on the treaty now agitating between government and the East India company, shewing the conceived defects of the propositions drawn up by the Court of directors : and containing a new set of propositions, perhaps more advantageous to the public, to the East India company, and the oppressed inhabitants of Hindostan / by Archibald Mitchell
Published
1780
Author
Mitchell, Archibald.




























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