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Management includes connected activities, functions or consecutive processes, aimed at implementing the mission of the organization, and achieving its objectives and vision or future ambition.

  The Figure below shows the role of administration and management performed by the different levels of management (top-level - middle-level-lower-level)

The importance of management lies in its success, the success of management helps us in solving different problems, but the absence of management increases the problems inside and outside the organization.

Each activity or business has specific and different objectives, but the problem remains is "what is the efficient way to achieve these goals". The common key to achieving the goals of the organization is "management".

Levels of management refer to the administrative divisions, and determines a chain of command, the amount of authority and status of differents managerial positions, as as the size of business increases, the number of management levels increases and become more complex. The levels of management can be classified into three broad categories (Top level – middle level – low level ).

Management is guiding human and physical resources to achieve organizational goals, and it is a force which reflects the collective efforts of human resources. successful organisations like google. Facebook, Mercedes, Coca-Cola ... etc. achieve their goals by following a deliberate and smart process of Management.

“Profession is a vocation requiring some significant body of knowledge that is applied with a high degree of consistency in the service of some relevant segment of society.” Hodge and Johnson

management art means that you apply your knowledge (general theoretical principles) and skills in management for achieving the best result, A.i a manager to be successful in his profession must acquire the knowledge of science & the art of applying it.

Management is a science because it is a systematic body of knowledge pertaining to a specific field of study that contains general facts which explains a phenomenon and establishes a cause and effect relationship between variables using scientific methods which involve testing.  And this process includes the observation and verification done through a series of testing. Another feature that indicates that management is a science is that their scientific principles are universally accepted because the scientific laws of management are the same throughout the world and in every situation. Management, on the other hand, has its fundamental principles that are universally accepted and applied in every case or company. Science is characterized by the following main features: Universally acceptance principles:  Principles of management are accepted overworld, and they are unified. We do not find, for example, that in America a company is led by one manager, and in Can...

When we say that management of this company. is good, we are referring to the group of people those who are managing this company The group works together, using common resources, to achieve a common goal or goals This means that group behaviour plays an important role in management.

"The management is also a new discipline but it is growing at a faster pace" management is formally being taught in the institutes and universities, it is a branch of knowledge, linked to study principles and practices of basic administration

The activity consists of a set of tasks and every manager performs several tasks to accomplishes the objectives by directing the efforts of others. Receiving information, sending information, periodic meetings, making decisions, managing all kinds of resources, all of this is the responsibility of the manager.

“Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling, performed to determine and accomplish stated objective by the use of human beings and other resources”  George R. Terry

          “Management is an art of knowing what to do, when to do and see that it is done in the best and cheapest way” F.W Taylor    “ set of activities directed at the efficient and effective utilization of resources in the pursuit of one or more goals.“    van Fleet and Peterson