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Management in its general sense is a very fundamental human activity, in its most basic sense, we can understand management as being about organization. That is to say, it is the activity of organizing or arranging things so as to achieve some desired functional outcome.
As such management is a pervasive activity that we are all engined in almost all the time. When we get up in the morning we manage our appearance, choosing what clothes to wear in order to project a certain image, we manage our house by organizing the different elements so as to achieve the desired functionality of a living space, we organize our time in order to achieve something in the day.