Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from August 18, 2021

Putka's Legendary Column: The Relevance of Communication and Effective Management at Workplaces

By: Sheku Putka Kamara In this 21st century, maybe we could suppose that the relevance of communication and effective management at workplaces should not be overstated.  I approach this discourse not just as a communicator and educator, but as someone that has managed and still continues to manage a few persons and places.  In my secondary education, I did come to the realization that management among other things requires astute leadership and in such instances, leadership has to be about the creation of a vision and the allocation of relevant people behind that vision to make it a reality. This implies that, effective management will challenge us all to attain institutional aspirations and or goals.  In my university days, I could still recall that Joshua Nicol will always suggest that management has to be about the utilization of available resources for the attainment of predetermined objectives. He will always tell us about the 4Ms in management (Money, Manpower, Machinery and Minu...