Administration, Management and Organization by Sadaf Naz

Any student of management is usually confused about the difference among administration, management and organization. This is a common problem. Basically it’s all about the fault of definitions. Therefore it is felt to describe them with examples.

Actually these all are inter-dependent and inter-related terms. As it can clearly observed that these all are concerned with the institution.

Institution can be small or big or may have single owner or may have board of governance.

When any institution have to set some goals, and for achieve these goals it describes some rules and regulation this is called ADMINISTRATION, when these activities are organized, and maintained to attain set goals, this is called ORGANIZATION, and the department, who organize these goals are considered as MANAGEMENT.

Let’s discuss this in an example:

When Pakistan got freedom, there are some goals which were targeted; those goals were to obtain a place where Muslims can practice Islam according to the Quran and Hadith. This was settled by Administration, who were the leaders of Muslims, like Muhammad Ali Jinah, Liaquat Ali and so on. When they distributed this work in parts by maintain some institutions, this is considered as Organization, we can say they organized the tasks, and the institutions, which made for attainment of the goal is called Management.

Let’s think over this:

Government decided to facilitate people by providing higher education. Therefore she made a governing body to decide the aims, objectives, rules and regulations, system of university, fields for study and so on. This governing body will be considered as ADMINISTRATION. When this administration will design the aims, fields and rules, it needs personnel to achieve the aims and implement the rules, the people who perform this task will be considered as MANAGEMENT. When management performs their works, they are actually organizing the university.

Conclusion:

 Administration: group of people, who decide tasks.

Management: group of people, who work to achieve these tasks.

Organization: the process (by management) to achieve the tasks.