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Principles of Management
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B.B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) · Sem 1
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B.B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Sem 1 Principles of Management Oct 2025 Question Paper with Solutions
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SECTION I
PART A
Answer any two · 30 Marks
Q1)Define 'Management'. Discuss is 'Management art or science'.[15]
Answer
For full marks, cover: the meaning and definitions of management (Taylor, Fayol, Koontz and O'Donnell, Drucker); its features; management as a process (planning, organising, staffing, directing, co-ordinating, controlling); management as an art (personal skill, practice, creativity, results); management as a science (systematic knowledge, principles, cause and effect, but inexact); the conclusion that it is both, and a developing profession; and a conclusion.
Meaning
Management is the process of getting work done through other people. It plans, organises, staffs, directs, co-ordinates and controls the resources of an organisation, so that it reaches its goals efficiently and effectively.
Definitions
- F.W. Taylor: management is knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way.
- Henri Fayol: to manage is to forecast and plan, to organise, to command, to co-ordinate and to control.
- Koontz and O'Donnell: management is the art of getting things done through and with people in formally organised groups.
- Peter Drucker saw management as the organ that makes resources productive, with marketing and innovation as the basic tasks of a business.
Features
- Goal-oriented: it aims at defined objectives.
- A process: a series of related functions.
- Universal: needed in business, government, hospitals, law firms and courts.
- Group activity: it works through people.
- Continuous and dynamic.
- Intangible: it is seen in results, not directly.
Management as an art
An art is the skilful application of knowledge to achieve results.
- Personal skill. Two managers with the same knowledge may get very different results.
- Practice. Managerial skill improves with experience, like music or painting.
- Creativity. Managers must find new solutions to new problems.
- Result-oriented. The test of management is the result achieved.
Management as a science
A science is a systematic body of knowledge with principles based on observation and experiment.
- Systematic knowledge. Management has its own concepts and principles, such as Fayol's fourteen principles.
- Cause and effect. Principles relate causes to effects: poor planning leads to waste.
- Experiment and observation. Taylor's studies and the Hawthorne experiments tested ideas in practice.
- But an inexact science. It deals with people, whose behaviour cannot be predicted exactly. Its principles are flexible guides, not universal laws like those of physics.
Both an art and a science
Management is both. Science gives the knowledge; art applies it skilfully to each situation. As a doctor needs both medical science and clinical skill, a manager needs both principles and judgment. Science and art are complementary.
A developing profession
Management is also becoming a profession. It has a body of knowledge, formal education (MBA programmes), professional bodies such as the All India Management Association, and growing ethical codes. But there is no compulsory licence to practise, as there is for law or medicine.
Conclusion. Management is the process of achieving goals through people by planning, organising, staffing, directing, co-ordinating and controlling. It is a science because it has systematic principles, though inexact, and an art because applying them needs skill, practice and creativity. It is best seen as both, and as a developing profession.
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