This document provides an introduction to management and organizations. It defines key terms like managers, non-managerial employees, and different levels of management. It also outlines the main functions of management like planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Managers play many roles and require technical, human and conceptual skills. The manager's job is changing with technology, security threats, ethics and competition. Organizations exist to achieve goals and require deliberate structure and coordination of people. Studying management is valuable because it is needed universally, most people are either managers or managed, and it provides both challenges and rewards.