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Management and Administration may be used interchangeably but the truth is that they differ in practice.
An administrator is one who makes policies for the company. His job is more of thinking.
A manager's job is to make sure these policies are followed strictly.
The Administrator thinks of what is to be done while the manager thinks of who will do it and how he would do it.
The fact still remains that in practice they might not be separated literally. They are all referred to as management.
An administrator deals mostly with paperwork, while a manager typically deals with a mixture of paperwork and people. (A supervisor deals mostly with people.) Thus to be a good manager you must be good at both, while to be a good administrator you really only need to be good at the paperwork part.
Emad Abdel Azi's answer is a good one.
Actually there are a differences between a manager and an administrator by describing the roles played by each in any organization:- Administrator is responsible for deciding major objectives and policies of the organization while a manager has to put into action the policies and objectives decided by the administrator.- Administrator takes decisions about the whole enterprise while a manager takes decisions within the framework that has been set for him by the administrator.- An administrator has the highest authority in the organization which implies he comes from the top management whereas a manager lies in the middle rung and has limited authority. A manager has to prove his authority by his skills and analytical thinking.- An administrator is usually one of the owners of the organization who invests capital and earns profits whereas a manager is a hired employee, usually an MBA who gets salary and bonus from the administrator.- A manager requires both managerial as well as technical skills whereas an administrator only needs managerial skill.as per the above, we can say that this question is not in his right place.
