Administration usually refers to the activities of the higher level of the management group who determine major aims and policies. This can be called the broader use of the term which is often used in governmentdepartments ( e.g., the Civil Services). It is also used in the narrower sense of controlling the day-to-day running of the enterprise.

An administrator can also be a manager; this occurs when the administrator is CONCERNED with implementing policy in dealings with employees to whom RESPONSIBILITIES have been delegated.

Brech DEFINES administration as : ‘That part of the management process concerned with the institution and carrying out of procedures by which the programme is laid down and communicated, and the progress of activities is regulated and CHECKED against targets and plans. ‘ Management has even more meanings than administration. Management can mean :

1. A process by which scarce resources are combined to achieve given ends. This describes an activity which can be better described by the word managing;
2. The management referring to those people carrying out the activity. This should really be the managers;
3. The body of knowledge about the activity of managing, regarded here as a special field of study, i.e., a profession.

Of these three, the first is preferable, management referring to the process of management. A USEFUL approach is to consider management to be a process whereby a suitable environment is created for effort to be organized to accomplish desired goals.

Administration usually refers to the activities of the higher level of the management group who determine major aims and policies. This can be called the broader use of the term which is often used in governmentdepartments ( e.g., the Civil Services). It is also used in the narrower sense of controlling the day-to-day running of the enterprise.

An administrator can also be a manager; this occurs when the administrator is concerned with implementing policy in dealings with employees to whom responsibilities have been delegated.

Brech defines administration as : ‘That part of the management process concerned with the institution and carrying out of procedures by which the programme is laid down and communicated, and the progress of activities is regulated and checked against targets and plans. ‘ Management has even more meanings than administration. Management can mean :

Of these three, the first is preferable, management referring to the process of management. A useful approach is to consider management to be a process whereby a suitable environment is created for effort to be organized to accomplish desired goals.