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Management is a social process entailing responsibilities for the effective and economical planning and regulation of the operations of an enterprise, in fulfillment of a given purpose or task. The responsibilities of management involve major issues like:

- judgement and decision in determining plans and in using data to control performance and progress against plans;

- guidance, integration, motivation and supervision of the personnel composing the enterprise, and carrying out its operations.

The organization is the framework within which and by means of which the management process can be applied. The organization is concerned with the definition of:

- the responsibilities of the executive, supervisory and specialist positions into which the management process is subdivided;

- the formal interrelations established by virtue of such subdivided responsibilities (an organization chart is a partial illustration of these responsibilities and relationships).

The history of thought on organization has known several schools, that differed from each other with respect to the problems considered central to studying the management process and designing the organization structure. They also differed in terms of the set of principles based on which answers to theoretical and practical questions have been provided. Surveys of the main streams of thought were developed in many books on organizations, of which we mention: Brech (pp. 497-547), March & Simon, Dale (1967), Newman et al. (1967). Among the problems to which special attention has been paid by writers some evolve as exceedingly important in understanding the phenomena that take place inside organizations.

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