The Need to Redefine Management from the View Point Of Scarcity: The Ontological and Epistemogical Consideration

Abstract

The objective of this research paper was to study the expediency in considering the causative factor of the emergence of management, so as to pointedly appreciate its original meaning. This research paper presented the need to redefine management by management scholars, scientists, students and researchers; shifting from the popular process or applied definition of management, which dwells only on the application and administration of management, rather than the ontological and epistemological viewpoint of management, which ideally takes our focus back to the foundation of management. This study looked at management from its default state, basing its definition on the doctrines of logicality and rationality. The study is anchored on redirecting researchers’ minds to the root cause of management as against the emphasis on the application and administration of management by the huge body of literature. This research paper posed as contributing to the body of knowledge a new way to looking deeply at management as a construct of natural circumstances.