The Next Definition of Management

Abstract

The author looks at the management process at the nuclear level with the particles of management being information and decisions. This view of the management process looks at management behavior as a subset of organizational behavior. Knowledge comes from information and feedback from our experience. Decisions come from knowledge and the tools to analyze problems. Getting information, making decisions and communicating information combine in an open system to produce the management process. It is the developments of the information age that have combined to make a new definition of management desirable and beneficial. A definition is only the starting point. A clearer understanding and sense of priorities of the management process is the benefit sought in this article.