Management Essay: The Importance Of Managerial Management

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The purpose of this essay is to highlight the importance of managerial skills. A management process is a line of activities and procedures such as planning, deciding and evaluating. We would be using an article titled What Great Managers by Marcus Buckingham as a base of discussion working on points that was overlooked and missed out though the report.
The article written by Marcus Buckingham talks and elaborates about ways to make full use of an employee’s skills and performance. It talks about steps on how managers make sure that employees are fully utilized to reach organization’s maximum profits. In the article, average managers were assumed and seen as to be playing the game of checkers while great managers plays the game of chest. When …show more content…

Managing is not a simple task as most people naturally resist change but managers have to ensure they have the skills to bring employees to view change a good aspect. Managers should always be equipped with interpersonal role, informational role and decisional role. The article have focused a lot on employee development, failing to highlight on other areas that managers works on and has to have the skills to be a great manager. Managers do not only work and focus on employee development, infact, a lot of the other steps are covered and being done by the Human Resource Management team. As managers it is important that they have other skills which are managing other resources such as financial and daily operations. other than that it is important that managers also pay attention on changes around them. As much as they have to ensure that their human resource are fully used to increase the organization’s profit, it is also important to ensure they are prepared for any changes in any time. Such changes are technology and globalization. No managers in today’s world can ignore the impact of technology and the way it affects their job and firms. (Porter, 2014). In our fast and diverse technological industry, it would just be a matter of time before some tasks around are replaced by technology, managers have to ensure that they have the skills and plans to ensure that their employees are constantly improving themselves, are up to date with the latest technology, are sent for trainings when needed to and are well compensated when being replaced by technology. Other than that, managers should always be equipped with people skills to survive globalization. More companies are looking onto expanding their business overseas; managers should ensure that they are equipped with the right skills to handle cross-national natures. Managers have to ensure they are always aware of

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