Modern Enterprise Management Handbook

Author: Wang Min
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: For a long time, many Chinese and foreign scholars have offered different interpretations of management from various research perspectives. This book adopts the viewpoint of American management scholar Henry Fayol and summarizes the definition of management as: "Management is the process of designing and maintaining an effective environment to achieve predetermined goals efficiently with or through others in a group." In this process, the role managers play is their functions, which are also known as management functions. There are multiple ways to categorize management functions abroad. Combining the practice of management activities in China and based on the views of American management scholar Henry Fayol, these functions can be summarized into five categories: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. This book also discusses these five functions as its framework.