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Please answer all 3 of the "For Discussion" questions down below. Please properly/thoroughly answer them. Also, please TYPE everything out.

1. Essential managerial skills and how we learn them

• Careers in the new economy demand continual attention to lifelong learning from all aspects of daily experience and job opportunities.

• Skills considered essential for managers are broadly described as technical—ability to use expertise; human— ability to work well with other people, including emotional intelligence; and conceptual—ability to analyze and solve complex problems with critical thinking.

• Human skills are equally important for all management levels, whereas conceptual skills gain importance at higher levels and technical skills gain importance at lower levels.

FOR DISCUSSION

-Which management skills and competencies do you consider the most difficult to develop, and why?

2. How individual needs influence motivation

• Motivation predicts the level, direction, and persistence of effort expended at work; simply put, a highly motivated person works hard.

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs suggests a progression from lower-order physiological, safety, and social needs to higher-order esteem and self-actualization needs.

• Alderfer’s ERG theory identifies existence, relatedness, and growth needs.

• Herzberg’s two-factor theory describes the importance of both job content and job context to motivation and performance.

• McClelland’s acquired needs theory identifies the needs for achievement, affiliation, and power, all of which may influence what a person desires from work.

FOR DISCUSSION

- How can team leaders meet the individual needs of members while still treating everyone fairly?

3. What types of plans do managers use?

• Short-range plans tend to cover a year or less; long-range plans extend up to three years or more.

• Strategic plans set critical long-range directions; operational plans are designed to implement strategic plans. • Policies, such as a sexual harassment policy, are plans that set guidelines for the behavior of organizational members.

• Procedures and rules are plans that describe actions to be taken in specific situations, such as the steps to be taken when persons believe they have been subjected to sexual harassment.

• Budgets are plans that allocate resources to activities or projects.

FOR DISCUSSION

Is there any real value to long-term planning in today’s rapidly changing environment?