Topic > Constructive Management of Employees - 1454

The following essay will describe and discuss how lower level managers can apply their conceptual, human and technical skills to help those under their supervision to be efficient and effective and will seek to provide examples to support the discussion. This will be done by providing a brief definition of basic management terms such as the role and job of a manager, the management skills outlined by Katz, and how a manager can use them to complete their job. This must be done using academic sources and management-relevant reference material that enables the organization to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Nowadays, jobs are changing. Technologies are becoming more and more sophisticated. Work competition becomes more binding. The jobs of the future will be more challenging, and the workers of tomorrow will need to learn new techniques to maintain their marketability. It is argued that what organizational development as a strategy does for the renewal of institutions, professional development or human resources, it does for the renewal of individuals. Since a learning manager exercises leadership in both processes, some of the required enabling skills are described, particularly the human skills that can be learned. First, to be well organized, an organization should be effective and efficient in all ways. To achieve this, an organization should hire some managers who can apply their conceptual, human and technical skills. Barlett and Ghoshal believed in a generic role according to which managers are people who are expected to add value to the company in a generic way, performing a generic set of tasks and possessing some generic skills. (Barlett, C., A & Goshal, S, 1997, p.105). Managers perform some important tasks. They need to do their job to achieve the goal of the organization/company they belong to. Shenhar (2006) states that the fundamental task of managers is to manage people, manage money and also manage technology. A manager's other duties are to create accurate estimates and proposals; capture times, expenses and costs; keep track of jobs; analyze productivity and profitability; create branded estimate and invoice forms, etc. a manager should think rationally, logically and objectively. Rational in this case means that a manager should make consistent, value-maximizing choices within special constraints. Acting and thinking rationally, logically, and objectively are involved when a decision maker carefully defines a problem to have a specific and clear goal. Decision making with a rational perspective would lead an organization to maximize productivity, effectiveness and efficiency, thus achieving the company's goal.