What is Management? All About Management and Managing

Sections of this topic

    Your Guide

    Carter McNamara

    What is Management? All About Management and Managing

    © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, Ph.D., Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
    Adapted from the Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business
    and Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision for Nonprofit Staff.

    Traditionally, the term “management” refers to the activities (and often the group of people) involved in the four general functions: planning, organizing, leading, and coordinating resources. Note that the four functions recur throughout the organization and are highly integrated. Emerging trends in management include assertions that leading is different than managing and that the nature of how the four functions are carried out must change to accommodate a “new paradigm” in management. This topic in the library helps the reader to accomplish a broad understanding of management (including traditional and emerging views), and the areas of knowledge and skills required to carry out the major functions of management.

    The following topics are very closely related to this topic in the Library: Management Development, Supervision, and Leadership.

    Sections of This Topic Include

    Suggested Previous Reading

    Introduction to Organizations (at least the information under the title “Basics”)

    Gaining a Broad Understanding of Organizational Management

    Managing Yourself

    Managing Yourself

    Basic, Entry-Level Skills

    Major Functions of Management (and areas of Knowledge and skills in each)

    Nonprofit-Specific Areas of Knowledge and Skills

    General Advice (Tips, etc.)

    Basic Guide to Management and Supervision

    General Resources

    Also see
    Related Library Topics

    Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Management

    In addition to the articles on this current page, also see the following blogs that have posts related to Management. Scan down the blog’s page to see various posts. Also, see the section “Recent Blog Posts” in the sidebar of the blog or click on “Next” near the bottom of a post in the blog. The blog also links to numerous free related resources.



    Submit a link


    For the Category of Management:

    To round out your knowledge of this Library topic, you may want to review some related topics, available from the link below. Each of the related topics includes free, online resources.

    Also, scan the Recommended Books listed below. They have been selected for their relevance and highly practical nature.