Take 15 minutes to do this activity.
In your own view, what is the difference between governance and management?
Post your answer in the discussion forum.
Compare your answer with your peers’ posts in the forum, and respond.
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Governance deals with setting the direction, whereas management deals with implementing those decisions.
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Government is the policy maker while the management actualise the policy
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You are correct, governance involves providing strategic direction and management involves ensuring that the organisation moves towards the desired direction. Management looks at goals that are set and works towards the achievement of those goals.
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I agreed to those definitions been shared from our colleagues.
Governance
Governance are the roles of a governing body that is responsible to set directions of an organisation to achieve a set of objectives. Usually a governing body is what that take a decision to achieve objectives of an organisation. In the Kiribati Ministry of Education, if we refer to the Teachers Registration Policy, under this policy there is a governing body known as the Teachers Registration Committee that governed or give directions about the registration of teachers in Kiribati.
Management
It is a process (involved the planning, staffing, organising and controlling) of ensuring that all tasks or activities in an organisation are all done to achieve specific objectives. In every organisation, management is a responsibility of a particular division or can be all divisions have a management section that make decisions and act according to the directions of a governing body.
Example of a Governing body and Management at a School level.
For example, if we think at a senior secondary school level, there are head of departments, senior masters/mistresses, deputy principal and principal who made up the management level of a school. Every senior secondary school has a ‘board of governors’ which is a governing body of the school that give directions to the management of the school.
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Governance is a set of rules and regulations that has been set out by the governing body of the institution and management is implemented of those rules and regulations that has been set out by the governing body.
Governance is the process of making high level strategic decisions such as the setting of organizational culture, visions, goals, etc. to ensure that the organization serves the best interests of its clients through accountability, transparency, responsiveness, rule of law, stability, etc.
Management is the process of allocating tasks and resources to ensure that the operations of the organization work towards the achievement of the decisions made by the governing body.
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Governance is the policies, structures and processes which ensures on fair decision making, being just, transparent , and where accountability and inclusiveness are paramount ; looks into the greater and larger perspectives with ethical conduct and participation whereby management looks into the actual running and proper utilization of the finances, physical and human resources to achieve the visions and missions of an institution within the boundaries of proper ethics and time management.
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Governance refers to the processes, policies, and practices advanced for the management of an organization. Management, on the other hand is the process of maintaining the smooth operations of an organization. While management focuses on executing an organization’s goals and objectives, governance provides the framework for the organization. The latter includes planning, organizing, directing, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals and objectives.
This is brief, but apt. Governance refers to the processes, policies, and practices advanced for the management of an organization. Management on the other hand is the process of maintaining the smooth operations of an organization. While management focuses on executing an organization’s goals and objectives, governance provides the framework for the organization. The latter includes planning, organizing, directing, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals and objectives.
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Governance is the process of making and implements policies and management is to run and maintain the desired policies.
Governance is the process of enforcing decisions and plans to achieve the goals of an organisation while management ensures on a daily basis what resources (human, financial, infrastructure etc.) would be needed to achieve the stipulated goals.
Precisely stated!! Relevant example too!
Depending on the context, Governance relates to administration within a sovereign authority while management deals with Coordinating and Directing Human and Material Resources to achieve set goals. However, to achieve good governance, there is need to understand Management.
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This is valid truth. In fact, failure to understand the role of each of these concepts, usually results in a clash, causing a lot of unnecessary conflict among the parties involved. Things get worse when the administrator does not understand the implications of their management style. Indeed, I reiterate Gurgur’s sentiment that good governance requires an understanding of management.
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Yes, governance has to do with making strategic decisions of an organisation and ensuring that they are implemented.
Thank you indeed Sir. Yours is instructive 
The policies which we discussed in the previous section have been made and issued by the governance and the management team implement them in an institute.
Governance make decisions, approve or disapprove and or ask for further work while on the other hand, management finally endorse and process/actualize the plan by authorizing the release of funds from the recurrent or project funds (for government ministries), or companies/businesses operations funds. Governance often comprises a group of people officially nominated from internal and external stakeholders while management is comprised by internal higher bodies of the organization, for example, in my college, the Deputy Principals and Principal are management people while the Quality Learning and Teaching Committee and the Academic Advisory Committee are the institution’s governance bodies.
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Thank you, I like this definition about governance providing the framework for the organization. Governance indeed is the backbone of management without which an organization cannot move forward or if it does but slow. Bottom line is, participatory approach to decision making contribute more to the advancement of an organization as in the quote, "Many hands lighten the working load’ and in this case "Many heads lighten the thinking load’. Best!
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