Are managers born or made. is management an art or science?

Question

1)EXPLAIN THE STEPS INVOLVED IN RATIONAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS

2)WHY is experince often reffered to not only as expensive basis 4 decision making but also a dengourous one .How can managers make the best use of experience

3)Decision making is the primary task of the manager comment.

4)Decision making and planning are interelated discuss

Answer 1

Nothing like an undergraduate 20 mark question. The difference is that you have 40 minutes to answer this question in an exam situation. In my humble opinion, outstanding managers are born since great leaders have the ability to understand their followers and within this understanding they can naturally identify how to effectiively communicate to their charges. While we can follow set rules and study management theory, this behaviour is inherent in outstanding leaders. To make a rational decision you must be 100% clear what objective you want to achieve. You must also fully understand waht options you have. Frequently this is the root of poor decisions; a lack of understanding of requirement outcomes and poor knowledge of the resources available to achieve the objective. Quite often exepience means that you invoke a safe option or an option that has been used for many years. This is contrary to forward thinking and the requirement for a manager to be innovative. Experience is often invaluable but it is best used in light of innovation and forward thinking. While Managers make decisions, team play is central to most organisations. You will notice that many organisations are moving towards a flatter structure where decision making is the right of both manager and subordinates. Multiple minds and wider input on ideas is often better. Finally decision making and planning can be interrelated. You need to decide what your plan is! For an organisation to move forward, it must have clear and concise objectives set out in a Business Plan. This obvioulsy invovles planning .......... good luck with your assignment.

Answer 2

I think it is a combination of the two, managers are born and made.
You need to have certain skills to be an effective manager and some of these cannot be taught, they are part of you makeup, you either have them or you don't.

You do need a certain amount of experience in the field you are managing and many times the decision making process has to be based on experience. As planning will often lead to a decision made, this again is where experience comes in.

However the above can be taught it is the managing of people as opposed to projects where most managers fall down, either you are a people person and an effective communicator or you are not.

Answer 3

I think you need to look at what they manage and what people think a managers Job is. I fell into the Job and i find half the problem is other managers thinking they are gods and letting the side down, or staff acting like children. The Whole job of a manager is to keep a project running in what ever the field that may be. The ones that bully when doing the Job should be made to work on a chain gang to bring them back to earth. The staff that act like children should remember we are all equal if the job goes well. The Job pays every ones wages and that's why we go to work. Need to know any more about what i think email me

Answer 4

I think management just kind of "happens" to some people. It just happened to me. I didn't set out in this life to become a manager but here I am being a finickety little bee-atch to people old enough to be my parents, and some, and going home at night wondering what happened to all my aspirations of getting in to research and not having to deal with people all day long. Oh boy, I think I need a change of job.

Answer 5

I love the 'defecated ' answer the best ..
so much self imporance for empty bubbles and loads of blah blahs ...and suits
and bull .....

that's honest bull and makes me laugh .. the rest is depressing

Answer 6

managers are neither born nor made, they are defecated

Answer 7

Neither. It's a combination of bullshit and kissing a.s.s.