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Technical Skill
Technical skills are the ability to apply the specialised produces, techniques and knowledge required to get the job done. (Williams & McWilliams, 2010, p.12)
The first one is technical skill. It is a ability to apply specialized procedures, techniques and knowledge to get the job done. If a manager has technical skills they generally have a thorough understanding of the duties required to perform their jobs. For example, in Woolworths company, the board of director involves into 10 different people. The Board's principal objective is to maintain and increase shareholder value while ensuring that the overall activities of Woolworths Limited are properly managed. Every people have different ability, As a result, company can get a comprehensive management and can get all-round development.
Human Skill
Human skills can be summarised as the ability to work well with others. (Williams & McWilliams, 2010, p.12)
Human skill means that the ability to work well with others. Managers with people skills work well in groups, encourage others to express their thoughts and feelings and are sensitive to others needs and viewpoints and are good listeners and communicators.
Woolworths is widely regarded as a strong, down to earth and family oriented company with ethical values and a hard working, responsible culture. Most of senior leaders started their careers on the shop floor so these values carry through from the checkout to the boardroom. Managers working with employees, and managers have a good work ethic and communication skills, the company and suppliers to maintain a good relationship of cooperation.
Conceptual Skill
“We are looking at all that stuff but the last thing we will do is launch a full-blown assault somewhere or other and waste a couple of hundred million dollars.”
James Strong, Chairman
Conceptual skills are the ability to see the organisation as a whole, to understand how the different parts of the company affect each oterh and to recognise how the company fits into or affected by its external environemnt. (Williams & McWilliams, 2010, p.13)
The last one is conceptual skill, the ability to see the organisation as a whole, to understand how the different part of a company affect each other, and to recognise how the company fits into or is affected by its external environment.
woolworths is faced with a huge number of competitors, so the company continues to meet the challenges of the external development.
James Strong, Chairman says that “We are looking at all that stuff but the last thing we will do is launch a full-blown assault somewhere or other and waste a couple of hundred million dollars... It is not a matter of being coy about it, it's just that sort of thing takes time... but certainly I think it's really important for the board and the management to be very active in that area and we are but there's nothing more we can tell you at this stage. The least likely thing that we would ever do is to go overseas and buy an existing company. It is going to be quite small ... very small and insignificant in the scale of things for some time.”
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