The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to business management: Business management – management of a business – includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising business operations. Management is the act of allocating resources to accomplish desired goals and objectives efficiently and effectively; it comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. For the general outline of management, see Outline of management.

Overview

Types of organizations

Areas of management application

Management application can be used by a person or a group of people and by a company or a group of companies depending upon the type of management skills being used. Management can be applied to every aspect of activity of a person or an organization:

Self-management skills

Self-governance is the act of conducting oneself to get things done. Effective management of oneself is a natural prerequisite of effective management. Personal skills related to business activity include:

General organization management skills

Department management

Field- or organization-specific management

Business strategy

Business analysis

Business analysis – set of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement or organizational change.

Goal setting

Goal setting – involves establishing specific, measurable and time targeted objectives

Planning

Planning – in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale.

Approaches

Feedback

Mistakes

Concepts

Business management education

– teaching students the fundamentals, theories, and processes of business.

People in business management

Management positions

Persons influential in business management