Originally, there were five management functions, but management book authors have condensed them to four: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The fifth function was staffing.

Rather than a specific management tool or process, Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach that small business owners or managers hold in running their company. They focus on quality and ...

The Army released Army Doctrinal Publication (ADP) 7-0, Training, on April 29, 2024. ADP 7-0 establishes the fundamental principles of training and introduces training processes that are further ...

Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle. The ...

To catalyze the impact investing market reaching its $26 trillion potential, the IFC spent the past year developing the Operating Principles for Impact Management, which offer investors a clarity ...

Risk Management Principles and Practices This course is an introduction to risk management. It looks at broad enterprise-wide risk management, encompassing four major categories of risk: hazard ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

A business is the composite of its organizational structure, functional design and process workflow. You can think of the three as the legs of a stool. If the legs of a stool are not in perfect ...

This paper discusses whether for-profit strategic management models can serve as frameworks on which to explain the strategic management process in nonprofit organizations. A review of the literature ...