In undergraduate school I learned the theories and history of management. According to Mosley (1997) management can be defined as the process of working with and through people to achieve objectives by means of effective decision-making and coordination of available resources. Gibson (1995) there is five primary functions of a supervisor:

Planning – deciding on a course of action for future needs and deciding how to achieve the desired results.

Organizing – deciding how resources and employees should be allocated, deciding what activities are needed to reach goals.

Directing - leading people through example, motivation, communication; recruiting, training, promoting, and rewarding people to do the organization’s work.

Coordinating – getting staff to work in groups/individual team

Prior to obtaining this formal knowledge, I never actually gave much thought into the role that management plays in my life. However, now that I have been challenged to think about the phenomenon of management I realize that the acts of preparing for work to raising a family requires different levels of management. I have applied management in my experiences of rearing my six year old daughter, pursuing my graduate degree, and even a simplistic task as organizing my daily tasks.

The responsibility of raising my daughter has required many changes in my life which involved a high degree of management. I had to acknowledge when I was at that time in my life to minimize and eventually abandon my adolescent, irresponsible behavior towards life since it was not conducive to someone who was now a parent. I had to reassess the people in my life, and prioritize the things that were of importance to me. Without knowing it, I utilized a great level of management to prepare myself to be a productive parent. How can I be responsible for paving the path for my daughter to live a fruitful and successful life, if I was unable of manage my own?

Another area in my life that I have illustrated use of management was my decision to enroll into college and pursue a graduate level degree. Keeping in the spirit of being a g

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