What is Management - Meaning and definition

Published by Roberto Wenk. Reviewed by Alison Ramsey. Last updated date: January 9, 2019.

The measures taken to plan, organize, operate, and evaluate all the many elements of a system and the personnel involved. Sometimes called administration.
Management includes formulating policies, defining priorities and their respective implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

World Health Organization. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Glossary. 2009.

Published by Roberto Wenk. Reviewed by Alison Ramsey. Last updated date: January 9, 2019.

The measures taken to plan, organize, operate, and evaluate all the many elements of a system and the personnel involved in the management task.

Management tasks include:
- formulating policies and defining priorities;
- setting up programs to translate the policies into strategy, clearly stated objectives, targets, and actions, and preparing budgets to govern the allocation of resources for the programs;
- implementing the programs;
- monitoring the results; and
- monitoring the process to ensure the delivery of all of these elements.

The discipline of management is a mature field of study and research and is a popular teaching topic. Management education and training in the health sector is crucial; areas of specialization are service management, finance, purchasing and planning, supplies, medical records, and informatics.

Adapted from World Health Organization. Terminology. A glossary of technical terms on the economics and finance of health services. Internet. Accessed December 18, 2015.

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