Managing_in_a_Nigeria_Work_Environment

UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, CHOBA DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT TOPIC MANAGING IN A NIGERIA WORK ENVIRONMENT A TERM PAPER PREPARED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE: MGT 601.1 BY ESERAIGBO A. MATHEW LECTURER: PROF. NWACHUKWU C. C. AUGUST, 2010 INTRODUCTION The role of the Manager is evolving with the change in competitive business environment and the realization that Management must play a more strategic role in the success of an organization. For many years, organizations have limited their productivity enhancement of employees to the acquisition of skills. However, about 86% of productivity problems reside in the work environment of organizations (Akinyele, 2010). The type of work environment employees’ work, to a large extent determines the way in which an organization achieves it objectives. The Manager is as such faced with the issue of efficiently managing employees in a rather complex work environment towards attaining the overall goal/target of the organization. This paper is aimed at analyzing the Challenges of managing in a typical Nigerian Work Environment. TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page - - - - - - - - - - - i Table of content - - - - - - - - - - ii Introduction - - - - - - - - - - iii 1.1 Management and Managing and Managers Defined - - - 1 2.1 Nigeria Work Environment - - - - - - - 4 3.1 Challenges of Managing in a Nigeria Work Environment - 7 3.1.1 Information Challenges - - - - - - 8 3.1.2 Innovation - - - - - - - - - 10 3.1.3 Ethics and Office Politics - - - - - - 11 3.1.4 Discipline and Corrective action - - - - - 12 3.1.5 Terminating employees - - - - - - 14 3.1.6 Change - - - - - - - - - 15 4.1 Conclusion/Recommended Solutions - - - - - 16 References