Question

Do you agree with the statement that management jobs are increasingly more difficult? Why or why not? What factors are leading to the increasing difficulty of management jobs?

Answer 1

Soln. Management jobs are increasingly more difficult in the sense, it has the responsibilities to manage the organization as a whole, considering the specific requirements and skills of each employee. Management has to struggle with the plan and processes, that is good for every employee. They just do not need to deal with one skill or one process, they need to manage people with different skills and have to manage different organizational processes. Management need to manage people coming from different background and with different skills. What needs to be assigned whom and in what proportion, to have the efficient output is one of the critical task of management, which is quite tedious and requires lot of research. How to define processes for the people, so that it fits everyone, is the another tedious task, that management need to perform. On the whole, management needs the knowledge from functional, operational, technical and business to manage its people and organization, which is hard to come in a single individual.

Factors leading to the increasing difficulty level of management jobs -

• Complex hierarchical organizational structure
• Increased level of roles and responsibilities
• Making people managed for new technologies
• Change of legacy operations and processes to match with the new digital requirements
• Managing people with different skill set