Personal Skills Assessment and Analysis Report
Developing optimally effective managerial skills can be a challenging enterprise in any industry, and it is axiomatic that it is essential to measure individual strengths and weaknesses in order to identify strengths to build on as well as opportunities for improvement. To this end, this paper provides a review of the relevant literature concerning effective management practices in general and how these practices can be leveraged to contribute to the creation of a high-performance organization. In addition, a self-assessed personal assessment of management skills questionnaire developed by Whetton and Cameron (2010) is used… Continue Reading...
Reflecting on Management
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The new managerial skills that I learned about were related to the importance and value of managing an environment (not just workers) so as to cultivate a workplace culture that promotes the vision and goals of the organization (Daft, 2015). To this end, I learned about how crucial it is to have a sense of duty and ethics and have the ability to communicate this sense to workers. As Schyns and Schilling (2013) show, when leaders and managers fail to lead by example, they create a divide between employees and management that… Continue Reading...
(Mathlin & Jarvinen, 2018). Core competencies do include solid communications and managerial skills, as the warehouse manager oversees the entire facility’s staff and operations. Recruitment could begin with the use of job hunting websites like LinkedIn, where potential candidates post their resumes, work experience, and other details relevant to their performance. The human resources manager needs to be careful to avoid basing recruitment decisions on discriminatory variables, which is why a search algorithm using keywords might be helpful (Calvasina, Calvasina & Calvasina, 2014). A warehouse manager may or may not require physical competencies. For this reason, the recruiting plan begins with… Continue Reading...
per researchers of a 2014 cross-cultural study of effectiveness and managerial skills, effectiveness is not in unique skills, but rather, emphasis on basic management skills. "The model of managerial skills and effectiveness was validated across five cultures. Managing successfully across cultures may require fewer unique skills, with more emphasis placed on using basic management skills having positive impact" (Hoffman, Shipper, Davy, & Rotondo, 2014, p. 372). While culture is hard to identify, and define due to it being comprised of numerous levels, there are certain actions and behaviors that work within almost any cultural context. Effective leaders must evaluate when… Continue Reading...
sports management is related to other business management that involves planning, organizing, evaluating and using managerial skills to achieve the organizational objectives. Chelladurai, (1993) classifies sports management with references to the services delivered, which include participant services, consumer services, professional services, spectator services, and sponsorship services. The author also points out that the sports management has overlapped the recreation and health administrations leading to the interrelationships with other disciplines. While Chelladurai, (1993) evaluates the taxonomy of sports management in the 80s and early 90s, however, sports management has changed in the last 20 years because it has integrated the sport merchandising services, and sport facilities… Continue Reading...
