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Explain the types of management skills.

      

Explain the types of management skills.

  

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Kavungya
Technical Skills
Technical skills refer to the ability to use the tools, equipment, procedures, techniques and knowledge of a specialized field. It is primarily concerned with the ways of doing the things. It implies proficiency in a specific field of activity. Technical skills are important for the lower level managers, because by nature their job involves supervision of the workers. Effective supervision and coordination of the work of subordinates, therefore, depends on the technical skill possessed by the lower level manager. Any supervisor without a sound knowledge of the job cannot make an effective supervisor. The subordinates at the shop floor do not respect such supervisors. The relative importance of the technical skills as compared to the other skills diminishes as one moves up to higher levels of management.

Human skills
Human skills are primarily concerned with persons, as contrasted with "things". When a man is highly skilled in employee relations, he is aware of his own attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs and recognizes their limitations as well as their usefulness. He accepts, the existence of viewpoints and feelings, different from his own. Thus, human skill refers to the ability of the manager to work effectively as a group member and to build cooperative effort in the team he leads. It is the ability to work with, understand and motivate people. He understands why people behave as they do and is able to make his own behavior understandable to them. He can foresee their reactions to possible courses of action and, is able to take their attitudes into account. His skill in working with others is natural and continuous. He does not apply it in random or in inconsistent fashion. It is a natural ingredient of his every action.

Conceptual skills
This skill also called design and problem-solving skill involves the ability;
- To see the organization and the various components of it as a whole;
- To understand how its various parts and functions mesh together; and
- To foresee how changes in any one of these may affect all the others
Conceptual skills extend to visualizing and understanding the relation of the organization to industry, to the community and to the political, economic and social forces of the nation as a whole and even to forces, which operate beyond the national boundaries. It is the creative force within the organization. A high degree of conceptual skills helps in analyzing the environment and in identifying the opportunities and threats.
Kavungya answered the question on March 26, 2019 at 11:25

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