Effective management is not the duty of every body.
Conversely, wherever people will work together, there is
generally the need for the co-ordination of efforts in order to
attain the desired goals. It must be borne in mind that anyone
who overseas the duties of other people in sub-ordinate positions
is regarded as a manager. Managers are primarily responsible
for the achievement of organizational goals. The failure of any
organization to achieve its set goal is often blamed on the
management. The manager is the dynamic force that provides
direction to be organization. He is like a football coach who does
not play but instructs and directs other players. Management is
getting things done through others, the coordination of all
resources through the process of planning, organizing, directing
and controlling in other to attain organizational objectives. The
extent to which the staff is committed to the good of the
organization, prepared to undertake responsibilities, to spend
extra hours, to change the course of the organization, etc.,
depend more on manger/ administrator behavior toward the staff
than other factors such as salary etc. Correspondingly, the extent
to which the manger/ administrator are able to motivate and
involve the staff depend on manger‟s /administrator‟s perception
of the staff. Douglas McGregor quoted in Adair (1996) in his
treatise upheld this view that managers handle workers
according to their perception or impression of the worker. He
embodied this taught in the theories he called X and Y