Defining Management (Chapter 1 Part 1)

Defining Management (Chapter 1 Part 1)

17an5When I walk around in the library, I found the book from James F. Stoner. That book has a title “Management” published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632 in years 1978.  The book has 24 chapter 683 pages including Name Index and Subject Index.

Alright now I invite you to discover the Chapter One about Managing and Managers. This chapter has 7 parts, let’s discusses one by one starting from Defining Management.

Like many areas of study that involve people, management is quit difficult to define. In fact we know that no definition of management has been universally accepted. But Stoner said that there was one popular definition is by Mary Parker Follett: Management, she says, is “the art of getting things done through people.” That is the keywords “Through the other people”. This definition calls attention to the fact that managers achieve their goals by arranging for others to perform whatever tasks may be necessary – not by performing the task by them self.

From that simply explanation we could know that Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the efforts of organizational members and the use of other organizational resources in order to achieve stated organizational goals.

Planning means that managers or leaders thinking their action through in advance.

Organizing means that managers or leaders do coordinate the human and material resources of the organization.

Leading means that managers or leaders direct and influence subordinates.

Controlling means that managers or leaders attempt to assure that the organization is moving toward its goals.

Finally my definition is that management involves achieving the organizations “stated goals”. This means that managers or leaders of any organization try to attain specific ends. This ends will, of course will vary and different with each organizations. Whatever the stated goals of a particular organization, management is the process by which the goals are achieved. It is exactly what done Mary Parker said about “Getting things done through people”.

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17 Responses to “Defining Management (Chapter 1 Part 1)”

  1. catatan febri says on October 14th, 2009 at 1:19 am :

    Blog ini telah di kunjungi dalam rangka membuat rekor blogwalking terbanyak dalam 1 hari dan menulis komentar dalam 1 hari dan anda di mohon untuk memberikan dukungan pada saya dengan menulis komentar di sini. Terimakasih

  2. catatan febri says on October 14th, 2009 at 1:20 am :

    harusnya tag dan isi postingan harus sama. kalau inggris ya harus semua
    kalau indonesia ya harus semua

    kasihan mbah googlenya

  3. catatan febri says on October 14th, 2009 at 1:21 am :

    mungkin mencari iklannya ya???

  4. boedi says on October 14th, 2009 at 10:31 am :

    @Febri: kasian sama Google??? gak salah bro :D
    dikoreksi dikit statementnya: yg bener itu adalah “mencari Ilmu, menambah Amal dan Rezeki…
    Gak terlalu berharap dari iklan (ads) soalnya gak seberapa cuma $0,00… kayaknya lebih kepada kepuasan bathin aja bisa sedikit berbagi pengetahuan saya yang dangkal ini.

  5. D3pd says on October 14th, 2009 at 10:51 am :

    Salam D3pd, keep struggle, ^_^…V

  6. Wandi thok says on October 14th, 2009 at 11:02 am :

    Waw, kalo ngreview itu apa mimang nggak boleh ditarjim ke Indonesian ya mas? :roll: :lol:

  7. boedi says on October 15th, 2009 at 2:22 am :

    @Wandi: yups, must in English :D
    @D3pd: thanks ^_^

  8. Wandi thok says on October 15th, 2009 at 2:37 am :

    oOo… gitu to mas, must in basa planet ya, makasih :lol:

  9. Wandi thok says on October 15th, 2009 at 2:39 am :

    Lalu dapetnya $ apakah dihitung dari banyaknya komeng ato bijimana mas? :roll:

  10. boedi says on October 15th, 2009 at 3:14 am :

    @Wandi: klo maen review yaa dapet $ nya dari hasil review kita di blog yg telah di approve sama mereka (contohnya Blogsvertise) coba anda lihat blog saya di http://boeditea.blogspot.com anda baca dan pelajari postingan saya di sana

  11. boedi says on October 15th, 2009 at 3:16 am :

    @Wandi: hehehehe.. biar English nya acak-acakan yg penting PEDE dan dapat dimengerti oleh om Google atawa Om Yahoo :D

  12. Huang says on October 15th, 2009 at 6:47 am :

    Wuaahh mengingatkan aku sama pelajaran manajemen neh.. hehe..

  13. boedi says on October 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am :

    @Huang: :D

  14. aphied says on October 15th, 2009 at 5:07 pm :

    wah, ak pernah bc neh bknya stoner.
    keren,
    tp keknya da yg indonesia deh. .

  15. boedi says on October 16th, 2009 at 1:57 am :

    @Aphied: buku2 dasar manajamen atau pengantar manajemen memang menggunakan referensi STonner.. kebetulan saya punya yang versi aslinya hehehhehe

  16. moenas says on October 21st, 2009 at 11:20 am :

    walaupun saya gak bisa bahasa englis namun saya tetap berusaha men suport teman2 bloger ,,,sukses terus browww

  17. boedi says on October 22nd, 2009 at 2:03 am :

    @Moenas: tengkiyu bro buat supportnya

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