Generally speaking, it is to design, create and maintain an environment, including the internal and external environment of the organization, by taking some specific means and measures, so that all management objects can carry out activities in a coordinated and orderly manner in a specific environment.
It has three meanings:
(1) Management is a conscious and purposeful activity that serves and obeys organizational goals.
(2) Management is a continuous activity process, and the process of achieving organizational goals is the process of managers implementing planning, organizing, leading and controlling functions. Because these functions are interrelated, the management process is a continuous activity process.
(3) Management activities are carried out in a certain environment. Under the open conditions, any organization is in a constantly changing environment, and the complex environment has become an important factor that determines the survival and development of the organization.
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The development of new management branches will be more rapid. An important feature of the development of management science is the development of management discipline. Because social and economic activities are facing great structural changes, the world economy will undergo qualitative changes in 2 1 century.
Management will solve many brand-new problems, such as the management of knowledge capital, the construction and management of information sharing system, the innovation of human capital management, the management of new organizational structures such as learning organization, strategic alliance and virtual enterprise.
In a more complicated social and economic environment, organizational adaptive management will form some new management branches and prosper young management. The development of management science presents some trends.
Management is more closely integrated with economics, psychology, sociology and mathematics.
Management itself is a comprehensive discipline. In addition to the continuous promotion of innovation by management practice, another important driving force for its development is the development of other similar disciplines, among which the achievements of the development of economics, psychology, sociology, mathematics and other disciplines have been applied in management research.
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