What is the difference between “Business Administration” and “Business Management”?
Business Management comes before Business Administration or you may say that Business Administration is a subset of Business Management. Business Administartion follow the plans already prepared in Business Management. For eg. MD’s are managing the business but they have appointed to PM’s to administer it.
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
In many cases, when it is combined with the word ‘business’ it is only a semantic difference and practically no difference at all. For example, the highest degree awarded for business is the Doctor of Business Administration, DBA, even though it is awarded by a management school in a university (e.g. Harvard, LBS, etc.). When they stand alone, one could arguably make a distinction between them: administration has to do more with the day to day running of an operation and is usually more delineated, whereas, management is wider both in scope and depth.
