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Management Skills

Cooperative Management · Level 5  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Fredrick Okoth

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What Management Skills covers

The four functions of an office manager are the subject of Management Skills, a Cooperative Management Level 5 unit. Planning covers goals and objectives, work plans, monitoring progress, the steps and principles of planning, barriers and management by objectives. Organizing deals with office tasks and responsibilities, authority, delegation, structures, centralization and decentralization. Directing includes orders, staff supervision, leadership characteristics, theories and styles, and coordinating ends with work schedules, roles and responsibilities, and rewards and recognition.

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Careers after Management Skills

Supervisors hold a society's office together, and this unit builds that capability by moving from goals and work plans to delegation, supervision and work schedules.

  • Cooperative society secretary's offices in Kitui - you set goals, make work plans and monitor the progress of office tasks.
  • Branch supervision roles in cooperative banking in Kakamega - you delegate duties, give clear instructions and supervise staff.
  • Office coordination roles in cooperative unions in Nyahururu - you create work schedules, define individual roles and run rewards and recognition.
  • Managing your own agribusiness office in Bomet - you apply management by objectives and the principles of organization to a small team.
  • Staff welfare coordination in cooperative colleges in Embu - you give orders and instructions, supervise junior staff and recognise good work.

Keep the work plans and schedules you draw up in class, as they show how you organise work.

Chapters

1
Apply planning principle
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2
Apply organizing principle
13 topics
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3
Apply directing principle
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4
Apply coordinating principle
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What Management Skills covers: 29 main topics in 4 chapters

1. Apply planning principle

  1. 1.1 Goals and objectives
  2. 1.2 Work plans
  3. 1.3 Monitoring of work progress
  4. 1.4 Principles of planning
  5. 1.5 Steps in planning process
  6. 1.6 Barriers to planning
  7. 1.7 Guidelines to avoiding barriers
  8. 1.8 Management by objectives
  9. 1.9 Types of plans

2. Apply organizing principle

  1. 2.1 Office goals and objectives
  2. 2.2 Office tasks and responsibilities
  3. 2.3 Monitoring of progress
  4. 2.4 Process of organization
  5. 2.5 Organizing components
  6. 2.6 Authority and responsibility
  7. 2.7 Organization structures
  8. 2.8 Delegation
  9. 2.9 Centralization and decentralization
  10. 2.10 Principles of organization

3. Apply directing principle

  1. 3.1 Orders and instructions
  2. 3.2 Staff Supervision
  3. 3.3 Exchange of opinions and ideas
  4. 3.4 Characteristics of successful leaders
  5. 3.5 Leadership roles
  6. 3.6 Theories
  7. 3.7 Leadership styles

4. Apply coordinating principle

  1. 4.1 Work schedules creation
  2. 4.2 Roles and responsibilities
  3. 4.3 Rewards and recognition

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions 56 Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself 117 Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions 60 Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation 26 What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations 14 Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards 597 Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator 3 On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios 61 Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income 36 Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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