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Management involves administering organizations through business administration, nonprofit management, or public administration. It entails managing resources of businesses, governments, and other organizations. Larger organizations generally have three levels of managers in a pyramid structure, including senior managers who set strategic goals and policy, middle managers who provide direction to front-line managers, and line managers who oversee regular employees' work. Management is studied academically and taught across different disciplines at colleges and universities.

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Management involves administering organizations through business administration, nonprofit management, or public administration. It entails managing resources of businesses, governments, and other organizations. Larger organizations generally have three levels of managers in a pyramid structure, including senior managers who set strategic goals and policy, middle managers who provide direction to front-line managers, and line managers who oversee regular employees' work. Management is studied academically and taught across different disciplines at colleges and universities.

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Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a

nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management,


or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively. It is the process of managing the
resources of businesses, governments, and other organizations.

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Larger organizations generally have three hierarchical levels of managers,[1] in a pyramid structure:

Senior management roles include the board of directors and a chief executive officer (CEO) or a
president of an organization. They set the strategic goals and policy of the organization and make
decisions on how the overall organization will operate. Senior managers are generally executive-level
professionals who provide direction to middle management.
Middle management roles include branch managers, regional managers, department managers, and
section managers. They provide direction to the front-line managers and communicate the strategic
goals and policy of senior management to the front-line managers.

Line management roles include supervisors and front-line team leaders, who oversee the work of
regular employees, or volunteers in some voluntary organizations, and provide direction on their work.
Line managers often perform the managerial functions that are traditionally considered the core of
management. Despite the name, they are usually considered part of the workforce and not part of the
organization's management class.

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Management is taught across different disciplines at colleges and universities. Prominent major degree
programs in management include Management, Business Administration and Public Administration.
Social scientists study management as an academic discipline, investigating areas such as social
organization, organizational adaptation, and organizational leadership.[2] In recent decades, there has
been a movement for evidence-based management.[3]

Etymology

The English verb manage has its roots in the fifteenth-century French verb mesnager, which often
referred in equestrian language "to hold in hand the reins of a horse".[4] Also the Italian term
maneggiare (to handle, especially tools or a horse) is possible. In Spanish, manejar can also mean to rule
the horses.[5] These three terms derive from the two Latin words manus (hand) and agere (to act).

The French word for housekeeping, ménagerie, derived from ménager ("to keep house"; compare
ménage for "household"), also encompasses taking care of domestic animals. Ménagerie is the French
translation of Xenophon's famous book Oeconomicus[6] (Greek: Οἰκονομικός) on household matters
and husbandry. The French word mesnagement (or ménagement) influenced the semantic development
of the English word management in the 17th and 18th centuries.[7]

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