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Management Skills

Procurement Management · Level 5  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Jane Chebet

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What Management Skills covers

The four management functions, planning, organizing, directing and coordinating, are introduced through office work in Management Skills, Procurement Management Level 5. Planning covers goals, work plans, monitoring and barriers to planning, along with management by objectives. Organizing covers office tasks and responsibilities, authority, delegation and organisation structures. Directing means giving orders and instructions, supervising staff and understanding leadership styles and theories. Coordinating brings work schedules, roles and responsibilities, and rewards and recognition.

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Careers after Management Skills

This unit covers planning, organizing, directing and coordinating as applied to the work of a procurement office.

  • Procurement sections of county governments in Nyeri - define office goals, set work plans and monitor progress against them.
  • Stores and supplies offices of hotels in Mombasa - assign office tasks and responsibilities and delegate authority together with responsibility.
  • Warehouse offices in Embu - give orders and instructions to staff, supervise them and invite their opinions and ideas.
  • Project offices of construction firms in Kericho - draw up work schedules, fix who does what and recognise teams that deliver.
  • Sacco and cooperative society offices in Kitale - apply the steps of planning and management by objectives to a small team.
  • Supplies offices of schools in Machakos - explain leadership theories and styles in practice by choosing one for the staff you supervise.

Prepare an example of a work schedule you drew up for a small team.

Chapters

1
Apply planning principle
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2
Apply organizing principle
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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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