DQ2 Week 6 Please respond to this discussion question by Saturday Day 5 What skills do managers need today Are these skills different from management skills of 50 years ago Why What skills do managers need today the skills a manager needs today range in adaption to the changing global market and diverse employee ethnicity I believe core manager skills must be the ability to perform complex decision making act with integrity and ethics and to communicate respectfully with everyone TECHNICAL The manager should be proficient at specific tasks This in turn helps to provide the credibility or knowledge to persuade people to do certain things HUMAN The manager has to know how to work with people CONCEPTUAL The manager can see the organization as a whole In other words there has to be some knowledge of the organization and what it does and how it interacts with other organizations SunrisePage com 2012 http www sunrisepage com manage skilmana htm Are these skills different from management skills of 50 years ago yes because the world has changed and society has changed which gives today s managers a different perspective on manager leader skills For example today s managers are tasked with seeking out waste and producing efficient and effective people processes Laws have changed over the last fifty years that prohibit certain actions in the workplace that were historically acceptable or have gone unpunished i e focus on ethical behavior and equal work standards for all employees as examples Technology has changed which forces today s manager to have technical abilities In general management is experiencing a revolution Nickels McHugh McHugh 2008 13 Why are the skills of managers today different from management skills 50 years ago The clear distinction aside from the obvious growth of a more accepting society is centered on the rapid development of computer technology Nearly five decades ago technology altered course Computers the size of a room were once used to manage an organization Today however a manager can control transactions from a mobile device About 40 years ago Gordon Moore made an accurate prediction A prediction later turned law which can be applied to technology as an elemental forecaster of technological growth Not only does this law merely estimate the absolute development of transistor quantities on microchips it serves as a supporting theory to what types of skills managers need today Change is now happening faster than ever and global competition is just a click away Nickels McHugh McHugh 2008 13 Before Moore s Law manager s rarely integrated management processes with computers Can you imagine a manager today lacking the skills of computer technology How would he she maintain pace with supply and demand Honestly the manager wouldn t be able to Managing change is an important element of success particularly in light of today s emphasis on speed in the global marketplace Nickels et al 2008 11