Hi Shubhangi, Management is the art of directing people towards accomplishing a specified set of objectives. Management is the administration of organisation, whether business or not-for-profit, or a government body. Management is all about utilising the available resources, financial, human, natural and technological to achieve certain objectives. Major courses in management include B.com (Bachelors of Commerce), BBA (Bachelors in Business Administration), MBA (Masters in Business Administration).

The major subjects in management include Business studies, Economics, Marketing, Finance, Accounts, Human Resource and Operations.

There are six main functions of management:

• Forecasting
• Planning
• Organizing
• Directing
• Co-ordinating
• Controlling

Management is a very broad topic. To know more about management, you can refer the books listed below:

• Management Principles and Practices by Lalan Prashad and SS Gulshan
• What Management is by Joan Magretta
• Principles of Marketing by Philip Cotler
• Competitive Advantage by Michael Porter
• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices by Peter Drucker

Thank You!