An estimated 70 percent of members of corporate executive offices started at lower-level positions in their companies. Yet once these employees become executives, they are often vulnerable to the pitfalls of the upper ranks, and they often aren't prepared. A significant number of prospective executives lack basic management skills, such as motivating people, delegating authority, dealing with employee conflicts, and doing numeric calculations. To deal with this problem, many business schools offer more courses specifically for sharpening management skills. Write a report that evaluates how your school of business is addressing this problem. You may want to investigate how other business schools have dealt with the problem, what courses they offer, and so on. Present your report to the dean of your school of business.
Gallatin, Tennessee
Letter of transmittal
I am pleased to submit herein the report that was written to evaluate our school of business addresses the problem of the transition of performing students from the school into the workforce. This report was conducted after realizing that most national and multinational corporations face the challenge of underperformance of their employees being promoted form lower level positions.
In this report that which was conducted by a comprehensive research team from volunteer’s state community college, while investigating how other schools of business address this challenge, the researchers also provided their recommendations into solving this problem.
INTRODUCTION
Company executives require management skills to be able to deal with the issue that they encounter in their daily routine lives. These skills have often been taught even when the executives are already in office. Companies have ensured that their chief executive officers have the current skills in the field of management and will invest heavily to ensure that the officers have the latest skills. This paper will give the strategies that many business schools offer to chief executives to sharpen the management skills of senior company staff. It has been found out that the most successful senior executive staff are those who embrace the opportunities to sharpen their skills by taking management courses. This is the reason why there is a need to have management courses for the executives. There is need to have senior executives learn continuously so that the government continuously gets access to information and not be left lagging behind in information. They also have a continuous spirit of learning. They understand that they have to improve their skills continuously in making sure that they are up to speed in the skills and competence in the market world. They make sure that they understand the current trends which are changing by the day. They have self-managed learning styles, and they are supplemented where necessary. They also make sure that they get the external learning sources (US Department of Health and Human Services).
METHODOLOGY
The research was carried through comprehensive survey and study from the university. The researcher relied on literature review concerning the various management issues that concern management. The main research methodology was to carry out a comparison of the various management and business courses that were offered in the university. This would give the research a baseline to compare the courses offered and the trends in low performance in organizations today. This combination of research strategies was considered to be the best in the research as optimal recommendations would be obtained. The researcher was able to learn from the electronic books that were offered by management universities. There were other reliable sources of information regarding the courses offered by leading universities of management.
DISCUSSION AND FINDINGS
Management courses
Business schools have come up with management courses that are meant to enhance the management skills of many senior executives. One of the management courses that are offered by business schools is how to motivate employees. The driving force for any organization is the human resource. The human resource can either make to break an organization. There is a need to ensure that the human resource is motivated and rejuvenated so that their performance in the workplace is ensured. Courses in management of employees help executives understand the needs of employees and how to ensure that they are always ready to work for the better of the company. Many business schools have integrated many aspects of employees. One component that many colleges integrate in management courses of motivating employees is how to have the employee get acquainted with the mission and vision of the organization. Research has shown that the most important thing in any organization is that the employees should understand the objectives that the company wants to achieve. The better they know these objectives, the more prepared they will be to work for the better of the company. This aspect is integrated in our business school and is working well with the senior executives.
Many business schools offer these courses in seasons so that senior executives can attend the training when they are ready and available for the training. The courses are scheduled and prepared so that they take the least time possible. This is because of the availability and time constraints that many executives go through. They have to plan for their time. The courses cover a lot in short periods of times. Business schools offer management courses for senior managers. This is done in such a way that there are executive courses that are offered at premium rates. This will ensure that other staff is not eligible to join.
There is also the important aspect of understanding the various needs of the employees in different categories. Employees have different needs and it is upon the senior executives to determine these needs and address the needs accordingly. In employee training courses, most of the courses have been integrated with management theories so that management can understand the various perspectives of dealing with employees.
Another course that is often offered by many business schools includes effective communication with employees. This is an important course that has been planned so that the young generations and their use of technology can be addressed.
Another course that is commonly seen in many business schools includes the course of change management. Changes that are experienced in organizations can bring issues and alienating to organizations if they are not managed well. Senior executives should be seen to be managing and embracing change in organizations (Hansen).
Current trends with technology
There is also the aspect of technology and the role it plays in organizations. Courses on management skills have also integrated the role of technology. The current trends of technology are changing the way managers make decisions. There is data mining that has helped managers make use of information in their day-to-day running of organizational processes. With information technology, this has been simplified as data can be processed to come up with viable decisions. Many companies understand that technology is one of the competitive advantages for many aspects. It is important to understand the role that technology plays in companies. With employees using technology in many aspects of their work, there is a need to ensure that senior executives understand how these technologies work. Many young employees make use of social networking sites even as a way of communicating with their seniors. This is a worrying trend for many executives. This is the reason why many business schools integrate technology and how to handle technology-related issues in organizations.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION
Training and continuous learning for senior executives is an important aspect and should be integrated well in the courses that are offered by most business schools. The recommendation that is made in this paper is that senior executives should continuously undergo training so that they are well versed with the management principles and changing trends. This will seal the gap between the management and
One of the areas in which senior executives need to focus on is in knowledge management of the employees. One of the main aims of knowledge management is to bring learning to an organization. Most of the time, learning in organizations starts at individual levels; although this is the case, knowledge management has various types. Senior executives need to understand what knowledge they have and the role that this knowledge has in the company.
Works Cited
Aldrige, Mark. School business managers: Their role in distributed leadership. 2008. Retrieved on 17 Nov 2013 from http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/8212/1/school-business-managers-full-report.pdf
Hansen, Morten. The best performing CEOs in the world. 2013. Retrieved on 17 Nov 2013 from http://hbr.org/2013/01/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-world
US Department of Health and Human Services. Senior executive and organizational performance management system. 2008. Retrieved on 17 Nov 2013 from http://hr.od.nih.gov/performance/perfmgmt/documents/SESPerfManag.pdf
