MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

Management Practices

Management Practices



Management is a general term used in the public sector to denote the organisational means by which public policy of governments is implemented. Perhaps the best-known definition of management is that advanced by the early management scholar Henri Fayol, who maintained that management involves “to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate and to control” (1949, p. 40). This so-called classical view of management implies that managers generally operate as essentially rational, analytical planners and decision makers directing the work of subordinates in such a way as to achieve pre-stated organisational goals.

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