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Management and Administration: A


terminological conflict

Three approaches have emerged :


1. Administration is above management
2. Administration is a part of management
3. Management and administration are same

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Administration is above management

Basis of difference Administration Management

Level in organization Top level Middle and lower level

Major focus Policy formulation and objective Policy execution for objective
determination achievement

Nature of functions Determinative Executive

Scope of functions Broad and conceptual Narrow and operational

Factors affecting decisions Mostly external Mostly internal

Employer-employee relation Entrepreneurs and owners Employees

Qualities required Administrative Technical

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Administration is a part of Management

This approach stands completely reversed to the


previous concept as it says that administration is
a subordinate function to management

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Management and Administration are


the same
This is the most practical and popular
• Eg. McFarland revised his stand,institutes offer
MBA and MGM .
• These terms are being used interchangeably

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Nature of Management
• Multidisciplinary
• Dynamic Nature of Principles
• Relative ,not absolute principles
• Management: Science or Art
• Universality of Management
• Management as a profession

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Management as a profession

• The characters found in management which


makes it a profession:
1. Existence of knowledge
2. Acquisition of knowledge
3. Professional association
4. Ethical codes
5. Service motive

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Group Presentation for session 3


• To present the solution to following exercise:
• Study the management principles followed by a
local company or your own institute. What role
does science and knowledge play in the
management practices followed by the chosen
organization?

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