Management Information System: Managerial post in Woolworths Limited

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Management Information System: Managerial post in Woolworths Limited
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Overview
This proposal depicts the importance of practical learning those are necessary to possess
by a manager to meet the managerial requirement of any business organization. In order to
develop this proposal the nominated company is Woolworths Limited. The company is
headquartered in Australia that serves their products in both New Zealand and Australia. The
complexity of the managerial post can be completely resolved if the managers of the business
organization play appropriate roles. I have been working as a project manager in Woolworths
Limited. As, the company serves both online and offline service in Australia and New Zealand
thus in order to meet the service level requirement of the consumers it is very much important for
the manager to analyze their job roles properly.
For becoming managers of Woolworths Limited both the formal and in formal
requirements are also elaborated in this proposal. Not only this, but also the managerial
characteristics those are needed to be possessed by the managers to meet the requirement of the
consumers are also elaborated in this research proposal. The principle characteristics of every
individual groups and the external environment for the individual groups are illustrated in this
research paper. After identification of the associated issues to Woolworths Limited it is
necessary to propose proper solution as per the job role analysis. However, in order to mitigate
the issues, certain recommendations are also elaborated in this proposal.

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1. Brief description of the job requirements
1.1 Formal requirements
In order to serve the requirement of the consumers it is very much necessary for the
manager to possess certain critical features and those characteristics area as follows:
A technical proficient: The manager is needed to be a technical proficient, as
Woolworths Limited has both the online and offline service providing ability thus the manager
must have technical experiences so that if any kind of technical failure occurs then those could
have been resolved easily (Tourish, 2014).
Be a visionary: The managers must have unique vision so that they could differentiate
their service management system from the other industries.
A well communicator: The manager must have the ability to communicate properly with
the other project team members and employees as well so that the employees also feel free to
share their point of views with others (Raelin, 2016). Moreover, it can be said that open
communication is the only approach that helps the manager to use the unusual resources
appropriately.
Encouragement towards professional growth: The managers are expected to grow
their knowledge and skills and also of the team members as well (Northouse, 2015). The main
aim is to make the company more consumers focused with different technical criteria.

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1.2 Job description
Before becoming a manager of Woolworths Limited the HR executives look for different
unique criteria such as creativity, proper responsibility, leadership quality, motivating activities
etc. With the help of these activities the organizational goal can be reached.
1.3 Designation
The specific job duties and the responsibilities of a manager are as follows:
 Staff maintenance through the help of selection recruiting, orientation and
arrangement of training for the employees
 Additionally, maintenance of safe as well as legal ambiance and development of
personal growth opportunities
 The staff results should be accomplished with the help of communication about
the job description, planning, appraisal, monitoring and controlling as well.
 The other duties are coaching, counseling, maintaining employees development
with improving standard productivity, policies and procedure.
1.4 Particular characteristics those are found to be important
Treat with the staffs professionally: The staffs are needed to be treated like professional
so that the work environment can be maintained properly.
Special role play: Some special features are needed to be served by the manager so that
they might be remembered over a decade and also could be shared with the entire project
development group. Budget is another most important thing that is strictly needed to be
considered so that no such budget breakage took place (Fairhurst & Connaughton, 2014). A
manager should also focus on memory creation business.