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Informative Essay.

The skills of a manager: their development within their position

Laura Rubí Gómez Cavazos

School of Business and Management, City University of Seattle

ENG102: English Composition II

Sofia Fernandez, M.A

February 12, 2023

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The skills of a manager: their development within their position

The acquisition of leadership skills not only brings benefits to employees. It brings

great benefits to the organization at all levels. A manager must have a series of skills to do

the job effectively and enhance their profile. Among the most important aspects a manager

must have, are leadership skills, which must master a series of values or attitudes and

possess self-knowledge that can help recognize their own qualities and limitations.

Leadership skills to achieve effectiveness.

Technical skills are some methods or techniques very specific and well executed

are related to technical skills, firstly to encompass all functional areas of managers. This

competence corresponds to the administrative category. Administrative skills encompass

activities like planning, coordinating, organizing or even delegating, making the function

of administrate resources of all types. Is relatively important the interaction between

workmates for a bigger aim, this is referred to human skills or developing the ability

together fulfilling effectively tasks and objectives. Citizenship or work behavior is essential

to create a healthy and great environment, developing actions, such as cooperativeness,

loyalty and persistence. “Meta-analytic evidence suggesting a relationship between

citizenship behaviors and performance evaluations. Although we expect all four

managerial skill dimensions to contribute to the prediction of managerial effectiveness, we

believe that some skills may be more important than others.” Whiting et al. (2008).

Values and attitudes

Values and attitudes of a manager at the time to connect with people all around the

world, must have intercultural effectiveness allowing managers to have this sensitivity and

self-awareness when entering to other environments, by the same token, cultural

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intelligence focuses on those differences in individuals, having the capacity to function

successfully in culturally diverse stages.

Self-knowledge (two potential moderators)

Self-knowledge and development of skills of a manager may include two potential

moderators. First, gender, sometimes gender in managerial environment that tends to be

stereotyped and people, more than anything, women must know how to handle this

situations, feminine gender is stereotyped as sensitive, loving, cooperative, and this could

trigger of a bad development of their own skills and how managers in a certain point could

be evaluated. Second, organizational level, where relationship of skills effectiveness of

managers are being moderated and at different levels may rely on a variety of different

skills to be successful. According to Mann (1965), “administrative skill is most essential

for upper-level executive functions, technical skill is most critical for first-line supervisors,

and human-relation skill is most essential at the intermediate levels of the hierarchy.”

Conclusion

The application of skills in a managerial level is a thing, to achieve effectiveness

inside manager area, must acquire accumulation of expertise to develop perfectly in any

department that covers, since having leadership skills to get better its own performance in

its position, where values are very important to maintain proper ethics, not to mention

possess self-knowledge, acquiring wisdom allows managers have a better formation and

panoramic view of everything that should be covered in this position. The manager's skills

must always improve continuously in all aspects and are important for the growth of the

manager and the people he reports to.

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