This document provides an overview of the characteristics of management. It was presented by Ranjitha.D, a first year M.Com student under the guidance of Sundar B.N. The document defines management and lists its key characteristics. Management is defined as coordinating resources like people, money, machines to achieve organizational goals through planning, organizing, directing and controlling. The characteristics discussed are that management is goal-oriented, universal, continuous, intangible, dynamic, multi-dimensional, a group activity and a social process.