are business management and business administration the same?

Answer 1

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The term "management" characterizes the process of and/or the personnel leading and directing all or part of an organization (often a business) through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, capital, natural, intellectual or intangible).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "manage" comes from the Italian maneggiare (to handle — especially a horse), which in turn derives from the Latin manus (hand). The French word mesnagement (later ménagement) influenced the development in meaning of the English word management in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Management has to do with power by position, whereas leadership involves power by influence[citation needed]. Compare stewardship.
[edit] Functions of management
Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing, leading/motivating and controlling.

Planning: deciding what has to happen in the future (today, next week, next month, next year, over the next five years, etc.) and generating plans for action.
Organizing: making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.
Leading/Motivating: exhibiting skills in these areas for getting others to play an effective part in achieving plans.
Controlling: monitoring — checking progress against plans, which may need modification based on feedback


Administrative management
Accounting management
Agile management
Arts management
Association management
Change management
Communication management
Constraint management
Cost management
Crisis management
Critical management studies
Customer relationship management
Disaster management
Earned value management
Educational management
Effective Sales Management
Enterprise management
Environmental management
Facility management
Financial management
Human Interaction management
Human resources management
Information technology management
Integration management
Interim management
Inventory management
Knowledge management
Land management
Leadership management
Logistics management
Marketing management
Materials management
Normative management
Operations management
Organization development
Perception management
Procurement management
Program management
Project management
Process management
Personal management
Performance management
Product management
Public administration
Public management
Professional Sales Territory Management
Quality management
Records management
Resource management
Risk management
Skills management
Social entrepreneurship
Spend management
Strategic management
Stress management
Supply chain management
Systems management
Talent management
Time management
telecommunication management

[edit] Managerial levels/hierarchy
The management of a large organisation may have three levels:

Senior management (or "top management" or "upper management")
Middle management
Low-level management (compare "team leadership")
Compare Harrington Emerson's distinction between "staff management" and "line management



The word "administration" is from the Middle English administracioun, deriving from the French administration, which is itself derived from the Latin administratio: a compounding of ad ("to") and ministratio ("to give service").

In business, administration consists of the performance or management of business operations and thus the making or implementing of major decisions. Administration can be defined as the universal process of organizing people and resources efficiently so as to direct activities toward common goals and objectives.

Administrator can serve as the title of the General Manager or Company Secretary who reports to a corporate board of directors. This title is archaic but in many enterprises this function, and its associated Finance, Personnel and MIS services, is what is intended when the term "the Administration" is used.

In some organizational analyses, Management is viewed as a subset of administration, specifically associated with the technical and mundane elements within an organization's operation. It stands distinct from executive or strategic work.

In other organizational analyses, administration can refer to the bureaucratic or operational performance of mundane office tasks, usually internally oriented and usually reactive rather than proactive.


[edit] Administrative functions
Administrators, broadly speaking, engage in a common set of functions to meet the organization's goals.

Planning is deciding in advance what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and who should do it. It maps the path from where the organization is to where it wants to be. The planning function involves establishing goals and arranging them in logical order. Administrators engage in both short-range and long-range planning.
Planning has both communicative and practical value. The resulting plan provides standing information to members/employees of the organization, and it convinces stake holders to buy into the organization's goals.
Organizing involves identifying responsibilities to be performed, grouping responsibilities into departments or divisions, and specifying organizational relationships. The purpose is to achieve coordinated effort among all the elements in the organization. Organizing must take into account delegation of authority and responsibility and span of control within supervisory units.
Staffing means filling job positions with the right people at the right time. It involves determining staffing needs, writing job descriptions, recruiting and screening people to fill the positions.
Directing is leading people (see Leadership) in a manner that achieves the goals of the organization. This involves proper allocation of resources and providing an effective support system. Directing requires exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate people. One of the crucial issues in directing is to find the correct balance between emphasis on staff needs and emphasis on production.
Controlling is the function that evaluates quality in all areas and detects potential or actual deviations from the organization's plan. This function's purpose is to ensure high-quality performance and satisfactory results while maintaining an orderly and problem-free environment. Controlling includes information management, measurment of performance, and institution of corrective actions.
Budgeting, excepted from the above list, incorporates most of the administrative functions, beginning with the implementation of a budget plan through the application of budget controls.

Administration (business)
Bachelor of Business Administration
Doctor of Business Administration
Institute of Business Administration
Management
Master of Business Administration
Münster School of Business Administration and Economics
Small Business Administration
Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration
Academic administration
Public administration
System administration (in Computing)
Central Administration
Administration (government)
Administration of an estate on death
Administration of an insolvent business
Route of administration (of medicines)
Other senses include giving or tendering of the sacraments, justice, oaths, medicines (see route of administration), etc. See Wiktionary:Administration.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration"



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Answer 2

In terms of a degree? No.

Have a look at the module layout on each course, to see which is best suited to you.

Business management, usually has more to do with financial accounts, strategically analysing companies

Business administration - well I did it at NVQ level 3, and its just office based...

But like i said, if it is to with a degree, look on the university website at the modules

Answer 3

The best advice is to work for a company first. Study and learn their systems while you earn. Google SCORE. SCORE is an organization of retired business people who mentor and it is FREE.

Answer 4

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