Management Competencies In Management

In Management, Competence has brought practical and hypothetical advantages to coexistent management thinking. The focus of Management shifted towards analyzing the competencies of Managers in the organizations. Numerous Academics have attempted to investigate the different competencies and how it is displayed with varying amount of success. For prominent 19th century Management theorist Henry Mintzberg, Competency could be understood as a capability or ability. Whereas according to theorist Henri Fayol, there are certain functions in Management which goes hand in hand with competencies in manager.

This essay aims to discuss what are the different Management competencies which can influence managers to achieve organizational Goals and Missions, and how to develop skills, knowledge and various competencies as a manager using analysis of both theorist Henry Mintzberg & Henri Fayol. To do this, we will First, make analysis of own current competencies and weaknesses as a manager. Secondly, it will be necessary to show how Henry & Henri’s writings have helped to better understand the ways in which we can develop management skills, knowledge and competencies.

To begin discussion, one has to analyze his own current competencies and weaknesses as a manager. “When a person’s capability is a consistent with job requirement & organizational needs, performance believed to occur as maximum.” (Richard E. Boyatzic 2007, Competencies of 21st Century). The dynamics characteristics of managing with all industry types give rise to managerial activites (Planning, Organizing, Command, Co-ordination , Control). According to Henri Fayol (1949) these managerial activites recongnised as basis for achieveing organizational goals & missions. Where as Mintz...

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...ial. He believes that lack of theory could make it difficult to practice management. So he felt special study required to practice management. He also stressed on receiving managerial training and therefore he contented on the functions of the management. He also explains that

“Functions are flexible and capable of adaptation to every need; it is a matter of knowing how to make use of them, which is difficult art requiring intelligence, experience, decision and proportion. Compounded of tact and experience, proportion is the foremost attributes of the manger”

Tsoukas (1994) pro offered the idea that, inter alia, fayol’s (1949) functions of management and Mintzberg (1973) management roles represent different but ontological layers of management. We can incorporate both perspectives for developing the most important skills, knowledge, competencies identified above