Process of Management Majority of scholars use the term management' as 'a process by which managers create, direct, maintain and operate purposive organizations through systematic, co-ordinated and co-operative human efforts." Thus, management is the planning, organising, staffing, _ directing and controlling the activities of the people working in a group in order`to achieve_the objectives of the group. It this way process/functions of management involve the following - 1. Planning - Management is concerned with planning, of the goals, to be achieved and the ways and means of achieving them. In this sense, planning involves thinking about the goals and the actions in advance. Planning does not mean building castles in the air, It is a rational activity based on the capacity and capability of organizational resources, and how they are to be harnessed for the purpose of accomplishment of the stated goals. Planning is a prerequisite of doing anything. Syst...