This document provides an overview of management, including its definition, nature, objectives, importance, and levels. Management is defined as the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling human efforts to achieve goals. It is a group activity that is goal-oriented, universal, and needed at all levels of an organization. The objectives of management include organizational objectives, social objectives, and individual objectives. Management is important as it allows for proper utilization of resources, growth, quality, risk minimization, innovation, and profits. Management occurs at three levels: top, middle, and low.