DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT

Managerial skills and competencies are keys to organizational success.Managers play a significant role in facilitating organizational effectiveness.Thus,organizations need managers who have both the insight to see and understand the nature of organizations need managers who have both the insight to see understand the nature of organizational problems , and skills and ability to develop strategies for their survival and growth in the present competitive world.Through their work,managers not only make their organizations more defective and compete,but also contribute to nation's economic development and prosperity.The Job of managers is,undoubtedly,very challenging.

Management principles can be applied at all organizations and at all level of an organization.It is a common mistakes to regard management as a function to be carried only in business,commercial,or profit making enterprises.For the nation to prosper,good management is necessary in all organizations operating in the society.Managing well makes work easier;or improves relations with fellow workers; it improves the services the organizations provides to others; and it makes life and work more rewarding .managing well leads to harmonious work;it lessens the irrational and frustrations that arise from confusion and bad organization.managing well improves the quality of work and makes working life more pleasant and meaningful.Good management is to an organization what health to the body; the smooth efficient functioning of all its parts.
Management has existed ever man has been organized into communities.It is sometimes thought to be an innovation of the twentieth century.But this is not so whenever and where ever people worked together in groups-to grow crops and cattle's to buy sell to fight wars , to build temples,etc there was management.