Management, A Faith-Based Perspective By Michael Cafferky

For any business to succeed, proper management has to be in place. The vision and mission of an organization are some of the things that can be used to evaluate how good a manager performs in running the institution. All businesses are established with their main aim being to make maximum profits through the exchange of goods or services for money. For this reason, business managers do anything humanly possible to ensure that their businesses are the best. For a business to succeed, its managers must be able to balance between profit realization, customer needs and employee satisfaction (Cafferky 176). However, not many managers are able to achieve this balance. In his book titled, ‘Management, A Faith based Perspective’ Michael Cafferky introduces
Generally, managers who have faith in God tend to perform better in there managerial roles because they value all stakeholders involved in the business.
Solomon (in the Bible story) for instance, saw himself as a ‘child’ and unable to lead. He prayed and asked God to give him wisdom, which he did. He was later able to lead the people as God had commanded. Similarly managers are leaders and their leadership greatly determines the attitude of those under them. Business owners and managers employ any means at their disposal in an effort to maximize their profits. Many people associate the success of a business with the gifts and talents of its managers. More successful businesses are seen to have succeeded because of their able and talented managers. In case of failure, the failure is interpreted to mean that the managers did not possess the necessary skills or were not gifted in a particular field of management. However, an organization’s success should not always be equated to its manager’s talents. Solomon’s belief in God encouraged his followers to have trust in him
According to most Christian managers having a satisfied group of customers is the surest way to ensure business success (Ruddell 105). In a strategy expected to achieve continued growth in business, most Christian managers rank customer needs first, needs of their employees second, then the needs of their bosses come last. One of the most common ways to achieve customer satisfaction that has been adopted by most Christian managers is truthful advertising. With increased competition, most managers have resulted in false advertising hoping that it will attract more customers to their product. What most don’t know is that this ends up having far-reaching consequences. Customers who are attracted to the product get disappointed when they buy it only to realize that it is not as good as advertised. They are not motivated to buy it in future. On the contrary, most of them look for alternative products to substitute it and opt for competing products in the market. On the other hand, honest advertising means that customers get to buy a product which is similar to what is advertised in both quantity and quality. They are never disappointed, in most cases; they are happy with the product and end up coming back for more and referring their friends and family to the same company. This results in an increase in customer base, an increase in purchases,