Management as an activity has always existed to make people's desires through organized effort. Management facilitates the efforts of people in organized groups and arises when people seek to cooperate to achieve goals.

Wren & Bedeian (1972: 11-12); as cited in: Le Texier, Thibault. "The first systematized uses of the term management in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Journal of Management History 19.2 (2013): 189-224.