DEFENCE MANAGEMENT

 DEFENCE MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

Management - wide terms has different meanings open to every wide variety of interpretations, in simple terms it means “ art of getting things done through people in order to achieve determined goals of the organisation Henry fayol -  father of management.  Frederick William Taylor - Father of scientific management.

MANAGEMENT DEFINITIONS:

“ Management is what a manager does”.

                                   Louis Allen

“To Manage is to forecast and to plan, to organise, to command, to control, and to coordinate”.

                                          Henry Fayol.

“Management is the art of directing and inspiring people''.     - James D Mooney and Alan Riley.

Meaning of Management

Management       Essence of         Coordination of

is what                management       physical and 

managers do                                   human 

                                     resources 

Management is what manager does:

1.  Planning  2. Organising  3. Coordinating  4. Directing  5. Control  6. Motivating  7. Communication etc.

ESSENCE OF MANAGEMENT

1. Art of working with people through people.

2. Art of science of Decision making and leadership.

FACTORS NECESSITATED THE STUDY OF MANAGEMENT

1.  Industrial revolution

2.  Mass production

3.  Growing markets

4.  Economic development

5. Trade Unions

6. Great depression of 1930’s

NATURE OR CHARACTERISTICS OF MANAGEMENT:

1. Universal process

2.  Factors of production

                    Land labour capital -> Mobilisation

3.  Goal Oriented

4. Involves supreme thoughts and actions

5. Involves team effort and group activity

6. Important organ for society

7. System of Authority and responsibility

8. It is a social science

9. Dynamic function

10. Profession by itself.

OBJECTIVES OF MANAGEMENT:

1. Increased profit

2. Sales

3. Goodwill/Reputation

4. Expansion

5. Diversification with efficiency and economy.

MANAGEMENT AND DEFENCE MANAGEMENT

The term ‘management’ historically has been and is used in a variety of ways.  It can refer to many decisions required to run a complex production or non-profit organisation, state agency or local administrative unit.  This is a kind of descriptive approach used to explain management as a process and the jobs that managers and supervisors do alternatively management could be applied by someone in order to direct people to achieve a concrete private aim with fewer resources and in the shortest possible time.  We may use ‘management’ also to refer to a  discipline of knowledge that has accumulated approaches based on political, economic, sociological, psychological or anthropological theory and philosophy in order to great a systemic approach (theory) of how particular aims could be achieved through ‘scientifically’ determined actions (strategy, policy) creating and using appropriate organisation and utilising determined (limited) resources.

       The roots of modern management are both in administration and business which should be the reference point when someone is adopting management principles and produces to other areas of public, private or personal activities.

Building on classical views on management's contemporary theories tend to account for and help interpret the rapidly changing nature of today's organisational environments.

Contingency theory asserts that when managers make a decision, they must take into account all aspects of the current situation and act on those that are key to the situation at hand. Basically, this is the ‘it depends’ approach.

For example, the contingency effort to identify the best leadership or management style might currently conclude that the best style depends on the situation.  If one is leading troops in combat, an autocratic style might be best.  If one is leading a hospital or university a more participative and facilitative leadership style may be recommended.

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