Know Your Resources To Manage Effectively - Page 1 of 5



 

Manufacturing managers of all levels are are the heart of an organization. This is because through them, the vision and mission carved by the very top CEOs or COOs are achieved. Irrespective of first, middle or top line managerial positions, the organization's goals are brought to reality through articulation of their superb coordination and mobilizing of available 'tangible' and 'intangible' resources. The chart above displays the 5 important resources which effective managers constantly use to achive stipulated organizational goals.

Among all the 5 resources, the MINDSET is the most important because being the only 'intangible' resource, it is always prone to be abused. Different people bring along with them different managerial style and leadership. Their capabilities are far most moulded and cemented based on the way they were educated. Their continous learning process throughout their career and personal life would have more or less mirrored their cognitive behaviours. In general, the table below depicted the 3 major skills any managerial level personnel should possess while in interaction with the organizational tasks, especially in exploiting the 5 resources under their belts.

Note the table above and you will find that each vertically laid boxes represent skills which different line managers should obtain. Notice also that the 3 skills are the same in each vertical boxes, only difference is that the size of each box varies according to the weightage a managerial staff should pay attention to. As a first line manager moves to middle and subsequently to top line managers, his technical skills shrinks. It denotes that technical knowledge and skill is so much vital in the first line managers than in the top line managers. Likewise, the conceptual skills expands as he or she moves to top line managers. This gives birth to the importance of larger weightage in conceptual skills in top line managers in relative to others.

Further scrutinizing the table, you will notice that the human management skills appear to have the same weightage throughout the 3 types of managers. This reflects that human management / soft skill as some would like to address it, do not change in weigthage and therefore every line managers should equip themselves with complete knowledge in human management. Next, what is conceptual skill?