Management Task

A Management Task is a decisioning task concerned with overseeing, designing, and controlling some designed process.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Complex Management Task to being a Simple Management Task.
  • It can range from being a Strategic Management Task with long-term goals to being a Tactical Management Task focused on short-term objectives.
  • It can range from being a Cross-Functional Management Task involving multiple departments to being a Departmental Management Task within a single team or unit.
  • It can range from being a Project-Specific Management Task with a defined timeline to being an Ongoing Management Task with continuous oversight responsibilities.
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  • It can be associated with a Management Process.
  • It can be supported by a Management System.
  • It can involve the coordination of resources, including human resources, financial resources, and technological resources to achieve specific goals.
  • It can require planning, organizing, leading, and controlling activities within an organization.
  • It can be carried out by individuals in various management roles, from senior management to line management.
  • It can be informed by management theories such as Taylorism, systems theory, and contingency theory.
  • It can be implemented in various types of organizations, including businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies.
  • It can be critical for ensuring that an organization's objectives are met efficiently and effectively.
  • It can (often) involve decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, requiring managers to balance risk and opportunity.
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• Example(s):
  • Worker Management Task (possibly in worker management process).
  • Process Management Task (possibly in process management process).
  • Terminology Management Task (possibly in terminology management process).
  • Database Management Task (possibly in database management process).
  • Project Management Task (as part of the project management process).
  • Performance Management Task (as part of the performance management process).
  • Supply Chain Management Task (as part of the supply chain management process).
  • Risk Management Task (as part of the risk management process).
  • Change Management Task (as part of the change management process).
  • Crisis Management Task (as part of the crisis management process).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Transaction Tasks.
  • Scheduling Tasks.
• See: People Management, Operations Management, Staffing, Leadership, Control (Management), Organization, Resource (Economics), Human Resources, Evidence-Based Management, Business, Nonprofit Organization, Government Agency, Business Administration, Nonprofit Studies, Political Science, Public Administration, Hierarchy, Senior Management, Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management Retrieved:2024-8-25.
  • 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. Larger organizations generally have three hierarchical levels of managers, 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 front-line managers and communicate the strategic goals and policies of senior management to them. * 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. 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. In recent decades, there has been a movement for evidence-based management.

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/management Retrieved:2015-4-14.
  • Management in businesses and organizations is the function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively.

    Management includes planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization to accomplish the goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources. Management is also an academic discipline, a social science whose objective is to study social organization.

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