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OPINION

Management systems should be linked to cultural realities

By Shahabuddin Mahtab
Better management of scarce resources, which may well be called the socio-economic leadership as well, la an imperative for economic progress of the developing na tlons In the Bangladesh context. we ace that the giant en terprises like the GEC plant at Chittagong and the Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory at Gazlpur are producing a mere fraction of their capacities Our failure in almost all the public enterprise* Is primarily due to poor management of the re sources, which leads to bur geoning losses The whole country is now paying through it*' noae.
Why the whole country has to suffer for the Inefficiencies of the few?
A selfless political leadership with enough clout should be able to pinpoint the defi-ciencle* and corruption In the public sector corporations and government agencies The public sector corporation* have to be made accountable to the Government meaning the people, to the employee* as
wt II a* to the consumers of the good* and services As our management practices have rib' been Institutionalised. SO there Is the lack of absorption of sound management prac tk e* in the public urvien and the public sectors
The process of management In a certain country Is based on the culture of that land. So far. Bangladesh has not been able to have the required number of competent managers to tackle the special needs of a Third World country. One of the reasons has been the outflow of our managers to the industrial countries, especially to the USA
Although a period of 45 years has passed since the time of partition of the Sub-Continent. and also three decades have passed since management education has come to the fore, we have not yet been able to develop our own indigenous management system
Management principles in their entirety cannot be
transplanted elsewhere We have to accept that management theories and practice are culture-apeclfk. not universal.
While dealing with man ■gement system in our country, It should be noted that the Image of father' has a dominant role to play Although a creative and adaptive acceptance of the western manage ment system Is. however, both possible and necessary We must find out a set of manage rial values and attitude* which can be Incorporated In our ■yatem
In Bangladesh, the effect of our family dominance' shape* our attitude In our workplace*. If we have an authoritarian atmosphere at heme, we cannot simply put It off tn our
A fully democratic attitude and value* may not work in our case. In fact, a lot of manage rial technique* and styles of the West are simply unworkable here a* they do not correspond to our social and cultural realities This needs at tention.