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.
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