Understanding &managing people

Understanding and managing people

Working with people may be one of the easiest things and or the hardest undertaking in any environment or organization . Properly understanding people provides a humble base or foundation in managing them and well managed people are easier to understand . This should be the aim and the belief of persons or an organization expressed as a rule of behaviour or conduct for success of both understanding and managing people

With so many motivational theories on the offing some are practicable and some are not . For better understanding and

managing people theory X and theory Y of (Macgregor ) 2008 are intensely considered . Applying this theory , research is done in one of the best performing schools in both academics and sports . The school comprises of 1000 students , 55 teachers , 5 security people , 5 cooks , 3 drivers , 2 librarians 1 nurse and 4 farmhands . So in members . All the staff members and the non staff members participated in the questionnaire exercise . Because the number of people was small , the error margin was nearly zero . For uniformity and consistency same questions were answered by teachers and the non teaching staff . The trend in the school is that no one is seen as a boss and nobody is monitoring others in any activity . This trend has encouraged the research in the school to ascertain what triggers the success and the motivational behaviour . The research is only done on the head teacher teachers and the non teaching staff members . The theory applied here is motivational Theory (model ) Y . The reason why it is used is because duties are performed without strict supervision from any quarters Interview was used as a way of collecting data and the sampling method was used to analyze the data . Below is a summary of some of the sample of data that was collected

Research questions for teachers

Questions Yes No

Are you closely monitored by the head teacher

Are you marshaled around by departmental heads

Are you independent in whatever you do

Do you commit your time fully in school

Do you believe in personal commitment without supervision

Are there rewards given on merit

Table 1

Research questions for non-teaching staff

Questions Yes No

Are you closely monitored by your bosses

Are you marshaled around by departmental heads

Do you arrive at your place at the set time in all days

Do you commit your time fully in school

Do you believe in personal commitment without supervision

Are there rewards given on merit

Table 2

Data analysis

The above sample proves theory Y model correct . All teachers and the non-teaching staff have the independent of performing their duties without supervision . They are not monitored . They are ever at the right place at the right time . Rewards are given on merit ? In fact all concurred that there is freedom and nobody is monitoring anyone and nobody is barking s . 95 percent know what is to be done and at what time . The 95 percent applies to the entire...