Management has been alive since older times because the need to develop it aroused. The subject of management is a science in its own ambit, it is such a thorough and detailed subject that its effects in any other subject and disciplines cannot be negated and ignored.
Harold Koontz,Dec 1961.the Management Theory Jungle, University of California, explains in his book that the art of management is reflected by perspective writers who have illuminated many years of their experience to reflect upon what management actually means in its literal terms and the few of them are Fayol,Mooney,Alvin,Brown,Sheldon,Bernard and Urwick.From their point of view a jungle of approaches have taken over the theory of management and all of them collectively think that management is actually how things are done and why they are done that way. The story of Hawthorne experiment and other behavioral studies believe that management is a science of psychology comprised of interrelated and complex relationships. Thus management is a practice whereby decisions are taken to deal with the issues of an organization.
Dr Yasin Olum , presented a paper at 15th East African conference at Kenya School of Monetary Studies defined management saying that management is the achievement of goals through people. Managers are ensured that they keep on implementing new methods in order to bring continuous improvements. Similarly Koontz and Weihrich 1990 page 4 says that management is basically designing a model and environment where individuals pool in their efforts in a group and head together towards the selected aims. It can be said that management basically means organizing, controlling, staffing, leading and managing. Management is thus about solving problems that keep on rooting up as organizations keep on expanding to reach its ultimate goals. Management identifies those obstacles and implements a solution like crisis