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Management Skills

Business Management · Level 6  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Bonface Omondi

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What Management Skills covers

Work through goals and work plans, then structures and delegation, then leadership styles: that is Management Skills in Business Management Level 6. Planning starts from goals and objectives and runs through the steps in the planning process, barriers to planning and how to avoid them, management by objectives and types of plans. Organizing covers office goals, organizing components, authority and responsibility, organization structures, delegation and the principles of organization. Directing looks at staff supervision, the characteristics of successful leaders, leadership roles, theories and leadership styles. Coordinating closes the unit with creating work schedules, defining roles and responsibilities, and rewards and recognition for teams.

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Careers after Management Skills

Planning, organizing, directing and coordinating are the working tools of anyone who supervises people, and this unit applies them to office settings.

  • Branch administrator at a savings society office in Eldoret - you follow the steps in the planning process, anticipate barriers to planning and use guidelines to avoid them.
  • Office manager at a college administration block in Nyeri - you set up the organization process, decide between centralization and decentralization and apply principles of organization.
  • Supervisor at a packaging firm in Machakos - you supervise staff, apply leadership theories and adjust your leadership style to the team.
  • Project assistant at a contractor's office in Kisii - you create work schedules and make roles and responsibilities clear to everyone on the team.
  • Small business owner in Meru - you plan the business with objectives and types of plans, delegate tasks and reward good performance among your staff.

Whatever the setting, the four principles give you a way to organize the work of other people.

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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