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Nature and Significance of Management

CBSE · Class 12 · Business Studies

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1. Meaning and Nature of Management

  • Management means planning, organising, staffing, directing, and controlling organisational resources to achieve goals.
  • Effectiveness means doing the right task and achieving goals.
  • Efficiency means doing the task correctly with minimum cost.
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2. Objectives of Management

  • Management has three broad objectives: organisational, social, and personal or individual objectives.
  • Organisational objectives include survival, profit, and growth.
  • Survival means ensuring the organisation continues to exist.
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3. Importance of Management

  • Management helps achieve group goals by giving a common direction to individual effort.
  • Management increases efficiency through better planning, organising, staffing, directing, and controlling.
  • Management creates a dynamic organisation that can adapt to change.
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4. Management as Art, Science, and Profession

  • Management is an art because it needs skill, practice, creativity, and personal application of knowledge.
  • Management has theoretical knowledge and practical application, which are features of art.
  • Management is a science because it has a systematised body of knowledge and general principles.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Management as a goal-oriented, multidimensional, continuous, and coordinating process that helps organisations achieve objectives effectively and efficiently

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