The document discusses the definition and functions of management. It defines management as the process of achieving organizational goals by planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling resources effectively and efficiently. The functions of management include planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling, and managers at all levels must coordinate activities and resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational objectives.

1. CHAPTER 1
NATURE AND CONCEPT OF
MANAGEMENT
REY D. METRAN
CARIGARA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

2. L E A R N I N G O U T L I N E
Follow this Learning Outline as you read and study this chapter.
1. Discuss the meaning and functions of
management;
2. Explain the various types of management
theories;
3. Explain the functions, roles, and skills of a
manager; and
4. Understand the basic concepts and theories of
Management?
1–2

4. There is a little story about four people named
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done, and
Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was
Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody
could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody
wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed
Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could
have done.

5. Lesson 1 Definition and
Functions of Management
1–5

6. MANAGEMENT
One of the most important
activities of human beings.
It is an art.
It can be learnt.

7. Management
Definition 1:
Manipulation of resources to
achieve objectives.
Resources: M’s
- Manpower
- Materials
- Money
Methods
Minutes
Machine

8. MANAGEMENT
Definition 2:
The process of getting
activities completed
efficiently and effectively
with and through other
people.

9. MANAGEMENT
Definition 5
The attainment of organizational
goals in an effective and efficient
manner through planning,
organizing, staffing, leading, and
controlling organizational
resources.

10. PRINCIPLES
In management, principles are
fundamental truths.
TECHNIQUES
Techniques are essentially ways
of doing things.

11. Who Are Managers?
 Manager
◦ Someone who coordinates and oversees the
work of other people so that organizational
goals can be accomplished.
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13

12. Classifying Managers
 First-line Managers
◦ Individuals who manage the work of non-
managerial employees.
 Middle Managers
◦ Individuals who manage the work of first-line
managers.
 Top Managers
◦ Individuals who are responsible for making
organization-wide decisions and establishing
plans and goals that affect the entire
organization.
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14

13. Exhibit 1–1 Managerial Levels
1–
15

14. What Is Management?
 Managerial Concerns
◦ Efficiency
 “Doing things right”
 Getting the most output for
the least inputs
◦ Effectiveness
 “Doing the right things”
 Attaining organizational
goals

15. Exhibit 1–2 Effectiveness and Efficiency in Management

16. What Do Managers Do?
 Functional Approach (Management
Functions)
Planning
 Defining goals, establishing strategies to achieve goals,
developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities.
Organizing
 Arranging and structuring work to accomplish
organizational goals.
Staffing
• Filling in the different job positions in the organizations’
structure.
Leading
 Working with and through people to accomplish goals.
Controlling
 Monitoring, comparing, and correcting work.

17. Coordination, Efficiency and
Effectiveness: Intrinsic to the
Nature of Management
 Management functions will all go to waste
if coordination, efficiency and effectiveness
are not practiced by an organizations’
appointed managers.
 Top managers down to the rank and file
must all be conscious of the said
practices of successful organizations as
they perform their management functions.

18. Fast Learning Review
1. What functions of management you
are already doing as a student?
2. How does our school principal
manages our school?
3. Explain why coordination, efficiency,
and effectiveness and intrinsic to the
nature of management.