Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

MANAGEMENT DEFINED

What is management? Managing is getting things done within an organization through other people. It means guiding people's efforts toward organizational objectives; it means inspiring, communicating, planning, organizing, controlling, and evaluating; it means setting goals and moving employees toward them. Management is leadership.

Obviously management is not for everyone. Most employees in all classifications are wise to remain nonmanagers, especially when they do not have the temperament or personality for successful careers as supervisors. But how about you? Should you seriously consider a permanent career in management? Would it satisfy your personal needs and values? Would you achieve greater self-fulfillment? Would you ...