Introduction to Management: Traditionally, the term 'management' refers to the activities (and often the group of people) involved in the four general functions: planning, organizing, leading and coordinating of resources.

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Management Development Planning: A critical skill for anyone is the ability to manage their own learning. The highly motivated, self-directed reader can gain a great deal of learning and other results from using the guidelines and materials in this library topic.

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Basic Guide to Financial Management : New business leaders and managers have to develop at least basic skills in financial management. Expecting others in the organization to manage finances is clearly asking for trouble.

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Human Resources Management: The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations.

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Group Performance Management: Simply put, performance management includes activities to ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on performance of the organization, a department, processes to build a product or service, employees, etc. Information in this topic will give you some sense of the overall activities involved in group performance management.

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Personal Productivity: The focus of the Free Management Library is on resources for professional, management and organization development. At the core of these types of development is personal development. The library includes the basic resources from which to get started in cultivating personal development.

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Management Function of Organizing: Organizing can be viewed as the activities to collect and configure resources in order to implement plans in a highly effective and efficient fashion. Organizing is a broad set of activities, and often considered one of the major functions of management. Therefore, there are a wide variety of topics in organizing. The following are some of the major types of organizing required in a business organization.

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Quality Management: Continuous improvement, in regard to organizational quality and performance, focuses on improving customer satisfaction through continuous and incremental improvements to processes, including by removing unnecessary activities and variations.

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Customer Service: Increasing competition (whether for-profit or nonprofit) is forcing businesses to pay much more attention to satisfying customers, including by providing strong customer service.

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A First Course in Corporate Finance: Freely Downloadable Chapters

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