ABSTRACT
The manager must have a lead over his staff because he has the ultimate responsibility, but a grade above that of his senior assistants is normally sufficient to cater both for higher level of judgement he can be expected to exercise and for the decisions he has to take. In many departments this may be sufficient to cover also the man-management required. An automatic lead of this kind may, however, be inadequate if the department is of a type which calls for an unusually high standard of man-management, so again, to ensure that nothing is missed, it is desirable to separate out this quality and examine it on its own. In the fighting services this has long been known as man management but the term suffers in the civilian mind from being too closely associated with the management of one's own staff or subordinates. The quality is required in many types of work, in addition to the obvious managerial posts.
