George R. Terry: ''Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organising, actuating and controlling; utilising in each both science and art, and followed in order to accomplish pre-determined objectives."

Peter Drucker: Management is a multipurpose organ that manage a business and manages Managers and manages Workers and the Work.

Peterson and Plowman: "Management may be defined as the process by means of which the purpose and objectives of a particular human group are determined, clarified and effectuated"

Harold Koontz: "Management is the art of getting things done through others and with formally organized groups."

Mary Parker Follett: Management is the "art of getting things done through people."

F.W. Taylor: "Management is the art of knowing what you want to do and then seeing that they do it in the best and the cheapest way."

Henry Fayol: "To manage is to forecast and to plan, organize,to command, to co-ordinate and to control."

Louis Allen: “Management is what a manager does.”

Michael Nolty: "Management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently with and through other people."