MANAGEMENT THEORIES, PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTICES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study and practice of management in Nigeria has been viewed to be based totally on western platform to the extent that those theories, philosophies and principles that are successful when applied in the western world have failed to yield the desired result when applied to the Nigerian setting. It is on this background that the authors reviewed some of the management theories, philosophies and principles that were operational in the Nigerian environment even before the British came to Nigeria. It is based on this that the authors advise that Nigeria should not do away with those management theories, philosophies and principles that were applied before the advent of the British in Nigeria, rather we should apply both the western and traditional ones, and try to align them to suit our environment, with a view to getting the best out of our local content.