management

(noun)

Administration; the process or practice of running an organization.

Related Terms

Examples of management in the following topics:

  • Modern Management

    • Railroads gave rise to the development of modern management techniques, such as the use of clear chains of command, statistical reporting, and complex bureaucratic systems.
    • Railroad companies systematized the roles of middle managers and set up explicit career tracks.
    • Career tracks were offered to skilled blue-collar workers and white-collar managers, starting in railroads and expanding into finance, manufacturing, and trade.
    • Frederick Winslow Taylor, a mechanical engineer by training, is often credited with inventing scientific management and improving industrial efficiency.

  • Progressive Government: City and State

    • The system whereby a city was governed by a powerful mayor and council was replaced by the council-manager, or the commission system.
    • Under the council-manager system, the council would pass laws, while the manager would ensure their execution.
    • The manager was essentially a weak mayor.

  • The Role of Women in the Household

    • Homemaking is a mainly American term for the management of a home, and is otherwise known as housework, housekeeping or household management; it entails the overseeing of the organizational, financial, day-to-day operations of a house or estate, and the managing of other domestic concerns.
    • The term "homemaker", however, may also refer to a social worker who manages a household when either the housewife or househusband is incapacitated.
    • Most of these courses have been abolished in recent years, and many youths high school and college youths are more likely to study child development and the management of children's behavior than the skills of homemaking.

  • Efficiency

    • This system is part of the council-manager style of government.
    • The legislative body, which is voted into office by public elections, appoints a professional manager to oversee the administrative operations, implement its policies, and advise it.
    • A major influence on this efficient style of governing was the "Scientific Management" movement.
    • Scientific management, also called "Taylorism," was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows.
    • It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management.

  • Moving West

    • The government made western settlement possible by clearing, guarding, surveying and managing the land.
    • It subsidized the construction of railroad lines to facilitate westward migration, and finally, it had bureaucracies to manage the land.

  • Civilizing the City

    • The system whereby a city was governed by a powerful mayor and council was replaced by the council-manager or the commission system.
    • Under the council-manager system, the council would pass laws while the manager would ensure their execution.
    • The manager served essentially as a weak mayor.

  • Peacetime Economy

    • The president was faced with the renewal of labor-management conflicts that had lain dormant during the war years, severe shortages in housing and consumer products, and widespread dissatisfaction with inflation, at one point hitting 6% in a single month.

  • Vaudeville

    • In the early 1880s, impresario Tony Pastor, a circus ringmaster turned theatre manager, capitalized on middle class sensibilities and spending power when he began to feature "polite" variety programs in several of his New York City theatres .
    • Pastor's experiment proved successful, and other managers soon followed suit.
    • Under Chico's management, and with Groucho's creative direction, the brothers' vaudeville act led to them becoming stars on Broadway, first with a musical revue, I'll Say She Is (1924–1925) and then with two musical comedies, The Cocoanuts (1925–1926) and Animal Crackers (1928–1929).

  • The Great Steel Strike

    • Distrusting immigrant workers to manage their own affairs, the AFL intended to run unions for them.
    • Steel executives and plant managers, and the federation had no real plan to counterbalance the vast financial resources the company would pour into anti-union espionage, strikebreaking, and union avoidance measures.
    • When the AFL did organize a local union, the federation's patronizing attitudes and management style alienated workers and left the local union powerless.

  • Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer

    • After being appointed as mine manager at the age of 23, he led a major program of expansion for the Sons of Gwalia gold mine at Gwalia, Western Australia.
    • An open feud developed between Hoover and his boss Ernest Williams, with Hoover persuading four other mine managers to conspire against Williams.
    • Hoover worked as chief engineer for the Chinese Bureau of Mines and as general manager for the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation.