探讨了管理领域的一些基本概念与基本问题,明确提出4条定义：a.管理活动是人类的第二类活动，它为第一类活动（作业活动）提供服务；b.组织的管理活动称为管理工作，这是组织中的一大类工作；c.组织委派某些人员专门从事管理工作，这些人员就成为管理工作者；d.管理科学是研究管理活动规律与做好管理工作的全部知识的总和，是一个内容丰富的知识体系。鉴于管理与管理科学这两个术语的中英文含义差别比较大，造成中国学术界在管理科学研究中的歧义和混乱，笔者梳理出3点建议。

Some basic concepts and basic questions of management were studied. The two terminologies guanli (including management, administration, supervision, etc.) and guanli science (generalized management science) have obvious differences in Chinese and English. In Chinese they are broad senses while in English are narrow senses. The simplified translations lead to several different meanings and confusions in Chinese academia. To clarify the Chinese meanings of these terminologies, four definitions are put forward: 1.Guanli activity is the second kind of human activities serving for the first kind of activities (i.e. operating activities); 2.The public guanli-activities of a group are called guanli works; 3.Some staffs appointed by an organization are called guanliers who are specially doing the guanli works;4. Guanli Science is the sum total of man's knowledge of the rules of guanli activities and guanli works, while is a knowledge system with rich content. We hope to set up the Chinese school of modern guanli science.