1) How do you feel about having management responsibilities in today’s world,

characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and sudden changes or threats from the

environment? Describe some skills and competencies that you think are important

to managers working in these conditions.

ANS: This question offers a great prospect to sketch yourself for management

responsibilities in today’s world that how you feel about life's challenges and what your

best resources for facing them while having management responsibilities, one of the

most distinctive skills for a person responsible for management is managing

uncertainty, ambiguity and sudden changes therefore managing complexity is not just a

up-to-the-minute subject but a key organizational skill that needs to be mastered by

company executives. The primary identifiable sources of intricacy in management

responsibilities are Interdependent as boundaries between the company and its

environment are becoming unclear; client/supplier/company value chains are

increasingly interlinked as both internal and external, and not only intercultural but also

sociological, economic and political bring diversity in management responsibilities if we

characterize the Ambiguity and uncertainty in management responsibilities in today's

world is characterize by an overabundance of information that is less and less clear,

making interpretation difficult and often invalid. How to define a clear value proposition

against this background and the Uncertainty in today's success stories can be

tomorrow's pitfalls for failure. The environment is experiencing constant and

increasingly sudden change or threats from the environment.

The key issue for a manager knows what to simplify and what to expand upon in order

to create opportunities from sudden changes or threats. The managers should develop

three key skills to ensure this approach is successful:

 Be clear: constantly explain and repeat simplified communication.

 Be curious: this is an essential mechanism to implement a rationale of

empowerment amongst teams. The more interest a manager takes in his/her

employees' work, the more creative these employees become due to the open

working climate.

 Be courageous: be able to let go and not be in a permanent position of control,

accept that one does not know everything, undertake values and the importance

of emotions in the decision-making process.

To effectively address these key aspects of a boss for todays and for the future then the

Learning processes are important as "Learning to learn" is the most important skill for a

high-potential individual or manager, allowing them to constantly adapt and challenge

themselves to learn continuously by attending advanced degree programs training

sessions as Transferring skills from training to the workplace is the ultimate objective to

be prepared in today’s world in management.