'The activities involved in managing an enterprise is common to all organizations'.

Which feature of management is highlighted here?

Management is pervasive

The correct answer is option 2- Management is pervasive.

'The activities involved in managing an enterprise is common to all organizations' highlighted that Management is pervasive.

Management is all pervasive: The activities involved in managing an enterprise are common to all organisations whether economic, social or political. A petrol pump needs to be managed as much as a hospital or a school. What managers do in India, the USA, Germany or Japan is the same. How they do it may be quite different. This difference is due to the differences in culture, tradition and history.

OTHER OPTIONS

• Management is a goal-oriented process: An organisation has a set of basic goals which are the basic reason for its existence. These should be simple and clearly stated. Different organisations have different goals. For example, the goal of a retail store may be to increase sales, but the goal of The Spastics Society of India is to impart education to children with special needs. Management unites the efforts of different individuals in the organisation towards achieving these goals.

• Management is multidimensional: Management is a complex activity that has three main dimensions. These are Management of work, Management of work, Management of operations.

• Management is a continuous process: The process of management is a series of continuous, composite, but separate functions (planning, organising, directing, staffing and controlling). These functions are simultaneously performed by all managers all the time.