Chapter 1 Review Questions 1) What do you think is the biggest personal reward of being a manager? What is the biggest potential downside of being a manager?
I think the biggest personal reward of being a manager is the opportunity to make a positive impact on the company through influencing and mentoring your employees through performance feedback and observing those employees who weren’t performing so well, actually improve more and more, every day. It is also rewarding when you make the right business decisions for the company and accomplish a company-wide goal. The biggest potential downside of being a manager is that you really need to have the right managerial skills in order to be successful at what you do or else this can negatively impact the company as a whole. 2) The chapter states that effective managers need technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills. Do all managers need these in the same mix? In other words, would some managers need more of one than of another? Why? Describe the managerial skills you think you need to work on the most and suggest how this might be done.
All managers need equal amounts of technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills in order to be successful. If a manager has great technical skills but lacks interpersonal or conceptual skills, then they wouldn’t be managing effectively. Managers need an equal mix of all three skills to understand our world of always changing technology, be great motivators and persuaders, as well as be logical thinkers and decision makers. I think that I would personally need to work on my conceptual skills the most through better judgment and mapping out the pros and cons of a decision that would positively affect the company as a whole rather than making a fast decision without really thinking of the