This document provides an overview of management concepts including:
- Management is the process of planning, organizing, and overseeing resources and activities to achieve business goals efficiently.
- Characteristics of management include being multi-dimensional, dynamic, and intangible. Management consists of ideologies, policies, and human interaction.
- Objectives of management are organizational survival, profit, growth, social objectives like CSR, and personnel objectives like salaries and benefits.
- Levels of management are top management, middle management, and operational management. Functions of management include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and monitoring quality.