Managerial Skills
To be a successful manager, you’ll have to master a number of skills.
To get an entry- level position, you’ll have to be technically competent at the tasks you’re asked to perform.
To advance, you’ll need to develop strong interpersonal and conceptual skills.
The relative importance of different skills varies from job to job and organization to org.
Noteworthy Management
Consider this scenario: you’re halfway through the semester and ready for midterms.
You open your class notes and declare them “pathetic.” You regret scribbling everything so carelessly and skipping class so many times.
That’s when it hits you: what if there was a note-taking service on campus.
When you were ready to study for a big test, you could.
What are the different leadership styles?
Over time, every manager refines his or her own leadership style, or way of interacting with and influencing others.
Despite a vast range of personal differences, leadership styles tend to reflect one of the following approaches to leading and motivating people:
the autocratic the democratic (also known as participative) or the free rein. What constitutes effective leadership?
Theories on what constitutes effective leadership evolve over time.
One theory that has received a lot of attention in the last decade contrasts two leadership styles:
transactional and transformational.
So-called transactional leaders exercise authority based on their rank in the organization. What is a manager's leadership style?
A manager’s leadership style varies depending on the manager, the situation, and the people being directed.
There are several management styles:
An autocratic manager tends to make decisions without input and expects subordinates to follow instructions.
Managers who prefer a democratic style seek input into decisions.
Business model
Situational Leadership Theory, now named the Situational Leadership Model, is a model created by Dr.
Paul Hersey and Dr.
Ken Blanchard, developed while working on the widely known text book, Management of Organizational Behavior.
The theory was first introduced in 1969 as Life Cycle Theory of Leadership.
During the mid-1970s, Life Cycle Theory of Leadership was renamed Situational Leadership Theory.