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Management Skills

Cooperative Management · Level 6  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Mary Ngugi

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What Management Skills covers

Cooperative Management Level 6 treats Management Skills as the toolkit of a team leader. Goals, work plans and monitoring of progress come first, together with planning principles, barriers to planning and types of plans. Office goals and tasks, the process of organization, structures and principles of organization follow. Staff supervision, leadership theories and leadership styles form the directing outcome, while schedules, defined roles and recognition of teams make up coordinating.

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Careers after Management Skills

This unit covers planning, organizing, directing and coordinating as the work of a team leader in a cooperative.

  • Coffee cooperative factories in Murang'a - write down goals, draw up a work plan and track how far it has been met.
  • Savings and credit society offices in Kiambu - set office goals, assign tasks and delegate with clear authority and responsibility.
  • Fish marketing cooperatives in Migori - give instructions to the staff who weigh and record, supervise them and pick a leadership style that fits the team.
  • Cooperative produce stores in Voi - draw up work schedules and define each person's role.
  • Cooperative branch offices in Isiolo - recognise the work of teams and keep the branch schedules on track.
  • Dairy cooperative collection centres in Nyeri - organise tasks by office structure and follow the principles of organization when allocating duties.

Choose a work plan or schedule you drew up and prepare to explain how it was followed.

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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