Managerical skills

Managerical skills

Managers at every level in the management hierarchy must exercise three basic types of skills: technical, human, and conceptual. All managers must acquire these skills in varying proportions, although the importance of each category of skill changes at different management levels.

1 Technical skills

ü    Technical skills refer to the ability and knowledge in using the equipment, techniques and procedure involved in performing specific tasks.

ü    These skills require specialized knowledge and proficiency in the mechanics of a particular.

ü    Technical skills lose relative importance at higher levels of the management hierarchy, but most top executives started out as technical experts.

2 Human skills

ü    Human skills refer to the ability of a manager to work effectively with other people both as individual and as members of a group. 

ü    Human skills are concerned with understanding of people.

ü    These are required to win cooperation of others and to build effective work teams.

3 Conceptual skills.

ü    Conceptual skills involve the ability to see the whole organization and the interrelationships between its parts.

ü    These skills refer to the ability to visualize the entire picture or to consider a situation in its totality.

ü    These skills help the managers to analyze the environment and to identify the opportunities.

ü    Conceptual skills are especially important for top-level managers, who must develop long-range plans for the future direction of their organization.