Management is every where- office, hospital, school, Finance, trust. Management is basically planning, organizing, coordinating , Directing, Assessing, Correcting, Motivating and Achieving a set goal. It is objective oriented. We always have a doubt whether it is an art or science. It is the oldest of arts and youngest of science, because it is of dynamic nature.

Different Managements needs different approaches: for example Business Management and Personnel Management are based on Common principles but vary a lot in the approach. Economist say Management is a Factor of Production: Socialist views it as a Group of People, others say that it is a process; Mary Parkar says “Management in its true sense, a process by which an organization realizes its objectives in a planned manner”. Management is all about great ideas, people and achievements; though there are many definitions of Management no single definition is universally accepted, as it changes from situation to situation, industry to industry, it has got different dimensions and hence cannot be defined precisely as a Scientific Theory or Law; James A.F says “ Management is the process of Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling efforts of organization members and of using all other organizational resources to achieve predetermined Organizational goals
Dr James Lundy’s views : Management is a task of Planning, Coordinating, Motivating and Controlling the efforts of others towards specific objectives”.
According to Henry Fayol “Management is to forecast, plan, organize, command, coordinate, , coordinate and control”. Peter F Drucker defines Management as “An Economic Organ of industrial society”.
E.F.L Breach says Management is concerned with seeing that the job gets doneits tasks are centered on planning and guiding the operations that are going on in the enterprise”
According to George R Terry