- "To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control."
Mary Parker Follett (1920)
- "Management is the art of getting things done through people."
Chester I. Barnard (1938)
- " Management is the accomplishment of objectives through the efforts of other people."
Peter F. Drucker (1954)
- "Management is a social and technical process that seeks to accomplish objectives by organizing and directing human and material resources."
Harold Koontz and Heinz Weihrich (1980)
- "Management is the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the activities of others to achieve organizational goals effectively and efficiently."
Stephen P. Robbins and David A. Decenzo (1984)
- "Management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, acting together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims."
Idalberto Chiavenato (1995)
- "Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the efforts of organizational members and of using all other organizational resources to achieve stated organizational goals."