Constructive Management of Employees

The following essay will describe and discuss how lower level managers can apply their conceptual, human and technical skills to assist those under their supervision to be both efficient and effective and shall look to provide examples to support the discussion. His shall be done by providing a brief definition of the basic management terms such as the role and job of a manager, the managerial skills as outline by Katz and how a manager can use them in completing their job. This shall be done by using academic sources and reference material relevant to management that allows the organization to achieve organizational aims and objectives.

Nowadays, jobs have been changing. Technologies become more and more sophisticated. The competition of working becomes more binding. Jobs in the future will be more demanding and tomorrow’s worker will have to learn new techniques to maintain their marketability. It is argued that what organization development as a strategy does for the renewal of institution, professional or human resource development does for the renewal of individuals. Because a learning manager exercises leadership in both processes, some of the enabling skills required are described, particularly human skills that can be learnt.

Primarily, to be well-organized, an organization should be effective and efficient in all ways. For bring it into a realization, an organization should get some managers who can apply their conceptual, human, and technical skills. Barlett and Ghoshal believed in a generic role that managers are people who are expected to add value to the company in a generic way carrying out a generic set of tasks and possessing some generic capabilities. (Barlett, C., A & Goshal, S, 1997, p.105). Managers have some important jobs. They need to do their jobs in order to achieve the goal of the organization/company they belong to. Shenhar (2006) said that the basic job of managers is to manage people, manage money, and also manage technology. The other jobs of a manager are creating accurate estimates and proposal; capture time, expenses, and costs; track 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 a manager should make consistent, value-maximizing choices within special constraint. Acting and thinking rationally, logically, and objectively are involved in when a decision maker defines a problem carefully to have a specific and clear goal. Decision making with rational perspective would lead an organization to maximize productivity, effectiveness, and efficient, then achieve the company’s goal.