Management vs Administration

Basis	Management	Administration
Nature	Executive, action-oriented	Policy-making, decision-oriented
Focus	Achieving objectives	Determining objectives
Level	Operates at lower and middle levels	Operates at top level
Function	Implementation of policies	Formulation of policies
Decision-making	Concerned with how, when, where	Concerned with what and why
Skills required	Technical, human, conceptual	Primarily conceptual
Scope	Narrower, specific	Broader, general
Orientation	Efficiency	Legitimacy & authority
Examples	Department heads, project managers	Board of Directors, government heads