Do managers require different skills at different levels of hierarchy?

yes based on his level and major

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Yes , as colleagues mentioned

Yes, it is very important for successful best practice.

We can group managers in any organization in three broad groups..

1.      Top-management: This refers to the top one or two hierarchical levels in the organization structure. Managers at these levels have responsibilities for the total organizational performance covering multiple business activities.

2.      Middle-management: These are the managers between the top- and first-level management. They generally do not have the responsibility for more than one type of business activity, and even within that may be responsible for only a segment of the total work in the organization.

3.      First-level-management: They are at the lowest one or two levels of management hierarchy. They are the people responsible for directly supervising the work of operational staff, and form a link between them and the management.

As we move down the organizational hierarchy the importance of planning and controlling functions tends to decrease, and on leading function tends to increase, as we move down the organizational hierarchy. There is a drop in amount of organizing effort requirement also with decreasing level of organization hierarchy, but much less pronounced drop in comparison to that for planning and leading. In view of this we can conclude that importance for planning and controlling skill required in managers tends to reduce with reducing level in management hierarchy. However, importance for leading skills increases with educing level of management hierarchy. Thus the first line managers, dealing directly with the operating personnel need very high leading skills to motivate, supervise and guide their subordinates. The importance of organizing skill does not change very much with hierarchical level, however, there is small drop in importance of organizing skill as we go down the organizational hierarchy.

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I am agree with experts, yes they require more

yes & agreed based on his level and majors

Yes, because each level of management require a different set of skills and managing abilities

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As the name of these skills tells us, they give the manager’s knowledge and ability to use different techniques to achieve what they want to achieve. Technical skills are not related only for machines, production tools or other equipment, but also they are skills that will be required to increase sales, design different types of products and services, market the products and services…

For example, let’s take an individual who work in sales department and have high developed sales skills obtained through education and experience in his department or the same departments in different organizations. Because of these skills he possess, this person can be a perfect solution to become sales manager because he has great technical skills related to sales.

On the other hand, one person that become sales manager immediately will start to build his next type of required skills, because if his task until now was only to work with the customers as sales representative, now it will need to work with employees in sales department as addition to the work with customers.

Technical skills are most important for the first-level managers, but for the top managers, these skills are not something with high significance level. As we go through a hierarchy from the bottom to higher levels, the technical skills lose their importance.

Conceptual skills present knowledge or ability of a manager for more abstract thinking. That means he can easily see the whole through analysis and diagnosis of different states in order to predict the future of the business or department as a whole.

Why managers need these skills?

As a first, an company have more business elements or functions as selling, marketing, finance, production… All these business elements have different goals even completely opposed. Think about marketing and production as a business function and their separate goals. You’ll see the essential difference. The conceptual skills will help managers to look outside the goals of a single business department and make decisions that will satisfy overall business goals.

Conceptual skills are vital for top managers, less important for mid-level managers, and not required for first-level managers. As we go from a bottom of the managerial hierarchy to the top, the importance of these skills will rise.

Human or interpersonal managerial skills present a manager’s knowledge and ability to work with people. One of the most important management tasks is to work with people. Without people, there will not be a need for existence of management and managers.

These skills will enable managers to become leaders, to motivate employees for better accomplishments, to make more effective use of human potential in the company and so on. Simply, they are the most important skills for managers.

Interpersonal managerial skills are important for all hierarchical levels in the company.

These are the basic skills required for a successful management as a process. Some authors also mention other skills that when I am thinking about, they are simply part of these three primary skills.

Organisations have usually three levels. Top management is connected with planning & strategy making for overall organisations & monitoring functional managers & their functions through control reports. (1)Top management should know how to manage managers. (2)Middle level management need to know how to manage their functions & use their functional skills & managerial skills to unify their activities to overall goal achievement of the organisations. (3)Lower echelon of management should know how to use job .operational skills to manage their job/operations.Managerial skills at top level would be Managing the managers & at middle level managing the functional area & lower level managing the job