management

management
Either the process of supervision, control, and co-ordination of productive activity in industrial and other formal organizations, or the persons performing these functions. As a process, management is conventionally divided into the line or general management of the main goals of the organization, and staff or specialist management dealing with support roles, such as personnel, legal matters, or research and development. A managerial stratum of persons in industrial society developed as a result of the joint-stock corporation, the growth in size of enterprises, and the expansion of public bureaucracy . Usage of the term is loose enough to include, at one extreme, directors and other senior staff who have a personal stake of some kind in their companies and are, in effect, also employers; and, at the other extreme, propertyless waged or salaried employees entrusted with, or promoted to, varying levels of supervisory responsibility. Managers in this second sense make up a growing proportion of white-collar workers. An excellent account of the role of ideologies of management in the course of industrialization is Reinhard Bendix's Work and Authority in Industry (new edn., 1974). Mike Reed's The Sociology of Management (1989) is a more general textbook. See also contingency theory ; line-and-staff ; managerial revolution.

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