There are many definitions of management but most perceptive managers are convinced that it is an organized effort of people whose purpose is to achieve the Objectives and Goals of an organization
F.W.Taylor defines : Management is the art of knowing what you want to do, and then seeing that it is done in the best and the cheapest way.
Henry Fayol defines: Management is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control.
Peter F. Drucker defines: Management as the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle (physical strength), substitution of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and substitution of cooperation for force. He also defines Management as an organ; organs can be described and defined only through their functions.
Donald J. Clough defines: Management is the art and science of decision making and leadership.
McFarland defines :management as “A process by which managers create, direct, maintain and operate purposive organization through systematic, coordinated, cooperative human efforts”.
Donally, Gibson and Ivancevich Management is a process by which individual and group effort is coordinated towards group goals same designing and maintaining an environment in which, individuals, workingtogether in groups efficiently and effectively accomplish group goals
and As per James D. Mooney and Alan C.Reiley, Management is the art of directing and inspiring people.
Management is:Optimum utilization of Available Resources To attain certain pre-set GOALS/Objectives