Management is the art of getting things done through people." —Mary Parker Follett.    It is the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and application of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible).

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to management:

Contents  [hide] 1 Essence of management 2 Types of organizations 3 Areas of management application 3.1 Self-management skills 3.2 General organization management skills 3.3 Department management 3.4 Field- or organization-specific management 4 General management concepts 5 Management scholars 6 Management lists 7 See also 8 External links

[edit]Essence of management

• Administration
• Business
• Entrepreneurship
• Social entrepreneurship

[edit]Types of organizations

• Company
• Government
• Organization

[edit]Areas of management application

General managers and other leaders need extensive experience in and knowledge of purposeful activity. Management can be applied to every aspect of activity of a person or an organization:

[edit]Self-management skills

• Personal information management
• Personal knowledge management
• Stress management
• Time management

[edit]General organization management skills

• Administration
• Agile management
• Change management
• Conflict management
• Conflict resolution
• Constraint management
  • Theory of Constraints
  • Focused improvement
  • Donella Meadows' twelve leverage points to intervene in a system
• Cost management
• Crisis management
• Critical management studies (CMS)
• Customer relationship management
• Design management
• Earned value management
• Human interaction management
• Integration management
• Interim Management
• Knowledge management
• Logistics management
• Operations management
• Organization development
• Perception management
• Planning
• Process management
• Program management
• Project management
• Quality management
• Requirements management
• Resource management
• Risk management
• Skills management
• Spend management
• Strategic management
• Strategic planning
• Systems management

[edit]Department management

• Accounting management
• Communication management
• Engineering management
• Enterprise content management
• Financial management
• Human resource management
• Information technology management
• Marketing management
• Procurement
• Product management
• Records Management
• Supply chain management

[edit]Field- or organization-specific management

• Association management
• Educational management
• Facility management
• Investment management
• Land management
• Public administration
• Public management
• Talent management

[edit]General management concepts

• Analysis paralysis
• Balanced scorecard
• Benchmarking
• Business
  • Business operations
  • Business process
• Business intelligence
  • Industry or market research
  • Industrial espionage
  • Environmental scanning
  • Marketing research
  • Competitor analysis
  • Reverse engineering
• Business plan
• Centralisation
• Corporate image
• Corporate governance
  • Corporation
  • Board of directors
  • Middle management
  • Senior management
  • Corporate titles
  • Cross ownership
  • Community management
• Critical path method
• Critical success factor
• Cultural intelligence
• Decentralisation
• Financial statement
• Futures studies
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Management by objectives
• Manufacturing
• Non-profit organization
• Operations research
• Organization
• PERT
• Poison pill
• Profit
• Shareholder value
• Strategy
• Structure
• Sustainable competitive advantage
• System

[edit]Management scholars

• C. West Churchman
• Peter Drucker
• Tom Peters

[edit]Management lists

• List of accounting topics
• List of business topics
• List of business theorists
• List of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
• List of business law topics
• List of finance topics
• List of economics topics
• List of human resource management topics
• List of information technology management topics
• List of marketing topics
• List of production topics
• List of project management topics

[edit]See also

• What to manage:
  • Culture
  • Business
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Society

[edit]External links

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• Association of Professionals in Business Management (APBM)
• Management Courses at MIT Sloan, OpenCourseWare
• Research on Organizations: Bibliography Database and Maps
• (United States) Academy of Management: dedicated to the scholarship and practice of management
• Institute of Certified Professional Managers
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