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MANAGEMENT INTERVIEW
One of the best ways to learn is to watch and talk to people who are
actually performing the tasks or skill you wish to master. This is especially true if
they are proficient and can explain their techniques. For example, weekend
tennis players often find it very helpful to watch and listen to tips forms the pros.
They many not be able to hit a better backhand the first out, but, with practice,
their game usually improve.
As you have already discovered from reading the text, management, like
tennis, is composed of skills and activities. Since management is such a
pervasive activity, you are probably acquainted with a pro in business they
are called executive or managers. To help you learn about management and get
some firsthand experience, gain access to a professional manager and set up an
interview with his person. It may be a relative, friend or former superior or
simply a manager with a business or industry in which you are interested.
Try to spend at least one hour with this person and cover the items and
questions listed below. If possible, also inquire whether you can observe the
manager performing routine management task, such as conducting a meeting or
taking with employees. This may give you an additional perspective on the
nature of management work.
One of the first things you will learn as you set up and conduct the
interview is how busy most managers are and how valuable their time is. Take
advantage of this opportunity and be prepared for your interview. When you set
up the interview and before you begin, explain the purpose of the interview: to
give you the chance to talk to and observe a practicing manger so that you have
a better foundation to study management. Most managers will be very
cooperative and informative.
Organization Issues
Goal-setting Activities:
Interpersonal Relations:
Planning Activities:
1. Do you develop plans for your work units? If so, what approach do you
take to planning?
Yes, it is one of my duty, to develop plan for the good of this
organization. As I do certain plan, I also allowing my subordinates idea so
that Im not the only one who is planning for our organizations good but
US.
2. Do you involve subordinates in the planning process?
Yes.
3. What are the time horizons of you plans?
Every available time I have.
4. Are your plans and goals specific and quantified, or more general?
I think , in making goals, you should consider those parameters.
5. What are the benefits or drawbacks of goral setting and planning?
Obviously, it is success that waits in preparing or having a goal in one
thing you want to have. But you will never gain it if you didnt pursue your
self.
6. Do you use these plans and goals in the evaluation of your work unit or
your subordinates
Yes.
Critical Performance Characteristics