Anybody that has ever had a job (whether it was with a large firm or small start-up company) has had some interaction with business management.
Every business needs some way of planning, organizing, staffing, leading or control in order to accomplish a goal. Business management can be defined as human action as well as design to create useful outcome and production. Management can also mean one person or a group of people performing the act of management.
It is difficult to trace the history of management since it is a more modern conceptualization. Management-like history dated back to Sumerian traders and workers of the pyramid in ancient Egypt. With the use of bookkeeping, management planning and control was then in place. As complexity and sizes of organizations grew, so did the split between groups and responsibilities. Gradually independent managers grew more and more common.