Newcastle Business School MNGT1001: Management Skills and Leadership

This essay delves into the essential management skills and their impact on organizational success, examining technical, human resource, and conceptual skills. It references Robert L. Katz's research, highlighting how technical knowledge, human resource management proficiency, and conceptual abilities contribute to effective leadership and adaptability to environmental changes. The essay explores how these skills influence business operations, emphasizing their role in maintaining efficiency, addressing workforce issues, and fostering a competitive advantage. The discussion underscores the importance of these skills in navigating the dynamic business environment, resolving operational challenges, and ensuring organizational sustainability. The essay concludes by summarizing how these three core skills collectively empower managers to positively influence their organizations.

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Management in organizations and the role of the leaders helps a venture in coping with
the different environmental changes. The different changes that are undertaken by the
organizations depend on the skills of the leaders in adapting to the environment and guiding the
processes of the venture for maintaining the sustenance. The discussion will undertake an
evaluation of the chief skills in the leaders and the manner in which the skills influence the
operations of a business positively relating to global connectedness and the environment.
Robert L. Katz stated in a research that the chief skills of a manager are related to the
technical knowledge of the processes, human resource management and conceptual skills, which
helps the same in enhancing the management performance (Robbins & Coulter, 2018). Pandya
(2014) stated that the technical skills of a manager help the same in acquiring a job specific
knowledge. The job specific knowledge helps a manager in improving the current processes that
are undertaken by the business while correlating to the environmental needs. The technical skills
of the manager assist the same in maintaining the efficiency of the production, distribution
processes that helps in upholding the sustenance of the business in a competitive business
environment.
On the other hand, Bos‐Nehles, Van Riemsdijk and Kees Looise (2013) noted that the
human resource management skills of a managers helps the same in facilitating the smooth
functioning of the work in accordance to the needs of organizational sustainability. Human
resource management skills of a manager help in identifying the issues and conflicts in the
workforce and mitigate the same in order to maintain the uninterrupted operations of the business
enterprise. The strategic functioning of the business enterprises aims at maintaining the synergy
between the objectives of sustenance and the uninterrupted functioning of the workforce. The
smooth functioning and change readiness of the workforce assist a business in maintaining the

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efficiency of the operations in accordance to the changing business environment. The different
modifications in the organization help the same in continuing the efficiency of the operations
while operating in diverse economies.
The conceptual skills of a manager helps the same in undertaking brainstorming sessions
in order to solve the complex issues in an organi8zation related to productivity and profitability.
The conceptual skills of a manager help an organization in gaining competitive advantage over
the other players in the markets. In this relation, Redmond and Dolan (2016) opined that the
different changes that are undertaken by organizations are dependent on the conceptual skills of
the manager. The delineation of the conceptual skill helps a manager in identifying the business
environment and the subtle modifications that might be undertaken by the business in order to
gain a competitive edge.
Therefore, from the above discussion it might be stated that the three chief skills helps a
manger in influencing the organization positively in accordance to the business environment
faced by the same. The skills would help the managers in maintaining the efficiency of the
operations in an organization and thereby resolve the different issues for upholding the
sustenance of the venture.

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References
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line management performance: applying the AMO theory to explain the effectiveness of
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Pandya, K. D. (2014). The key competencies of project leader beyond the essential technical
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Redmond, S., & Dolan, P. (2016). Towards a conceptual model of youth leadership
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