Features of Management

For a clear understanding of management, its features may be discussed as below :

(1) Management is usually associated with group efforts : It is usual to associate management with a group. Although people as individuals manage many personal affairs, the group emphasis of management is universal. Each and every enterprise entails the existence of a group to achieve goals. It is now established that goals arc achieved more readily by a group than by any one person alone. 

(2) Management is purposeful : Wherever there is management there is a purpose. Management, in fact, deals with the achievement of something definite, expressed as a goal or objective. Management success is commonly measured by the extent to which objectives arc achieved.Management exists because it is an effective means of getting the necessary work accomplished. 

(3) Management is accomplished through the efforts of other.s : Management is sometimes defined as "getting things done through others' efforts." Besides the manager of a firm, there may be accountants, engineers, systems analysts, salesmen and a host of other employees working but it is the manager's job to integrate all their activities. Thus it can  well  be said that participation in management necessitates relinquishing the normal tendency to perform all things oneself and getting tasks accomplished through high group efforts. 

(4) Management is action-oriented : Managers focus their attention and efforts on bringing about successful action. Successful managers have an urge for accomplishment. They know when and where to start, what to do for keeping things moving, and how to follow through. 

(5) Management is indispensable : Management can neither be replaced nor substituted by anything else. Even the computer which is the wonderful invention of the twentieth century can only aid but not replace management. We know that the computer is an extremely powerful tool of management. It can widen a manager's vision and sharpen his insight by supplying more and faster information for making key decisions. The

computer has enabled the manager to conduct analysis far beyond the normal analytical capacities of man. But what happens in reality is that the computer can neither work by itself nor can it pass any judgement. The manager play his/her role by providing judgement and imagination as well as interpreting and evaluating what the information/data mean in each individual case. 

(6) Management is intangible : Management is often called the unseen force, its presence being evidenced by the results of its efforts motivation among entplyces. discipline in the group, high productivity. adequate surplus etc. Conversely, the identity of management may also be felt by its absence or by the presence of its direct opposite mismanagement. The consequence of mismanagement is anybody's guess.

(7) Management can ensure better life : A manager can do much to improve the work environment, stimulate people to perform better, achieve progress, bring hope and accomplish better things in life.