W use unique data from 245 stores of a UK retailer to study links among middle (store) manager skills, sales, and manager pay. We find that, of the six management practice areas surveyed, the most important is “commercial awareness,” where abler managers achieve up to 13.9% higher sales per worker. We find that many stores have poor managers on this indicator. However, the company is careful to...

background: in every organization, productivity is considerably related with organizational knowledge, experience, creativity, and skills. therefore, an organization must develop training programs to extract and supply individual, occupational, and organizational needs. this case study described the management performance promotion plan in the iranian ministry of health and medical education (m...

there is no doubt that people need counseling. the variety of problems that persons are faced with during their lives such as disturbances, maladjustments in family, school, college, factory, organization and society financial, social, educational, vocational, personal, health,marriage problems the discrepancy between the abilities and skills with the branches of education, especially with job ...

background and objectives: effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. cultural competence is key to effective communication. the aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   methods: twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. data we...

    Background: Achieving organizational objectives depends on the effectiveness of administrators. However, managerial efficacy largely depends on the knowledge and skills of managers. This study aimed at assessing the skills of financial and budget management of the Ministry of Health from the perspective of resource development assistants of universities of medical sciences na...

Performance of different organizations, such as hospitals is mainly influenced by their managers' performance. Nursing managers have an important role in hospital performance and their managerial skills can improve the quality of the services. Hence, the present study was conducted in order to assess the relationship between the managerial skills and the results of their performance evaluation ...

BACKGROUND Health care leaders have called for the development of communication and leadership skills to improve manager-employee relationships, employee job satisfaction, quality care, and work environments. PURPOSES The aim of the study reported here was to pilot how a 2-day coaching workshop ("Coaching for Impressive CARE") conducted as a leadership development strategy influenced frontlin...

The Management Academy for Public Health is a management development program with the goals of helping public health managers learn to manage people, data, and finance, to think and plan like entrepreneurs, and to strengthen public health organizations. Managers enroll as teams and develop business plans in the Academy's extensive project-based learning component. Extensive internal and externa...

At theNew Managers’ 2000 Conference, Beth Barrow of Nortel Networks introduced all of us to the challenge of becoming better people managers. She pointed out that in a recent informal survey she conducted of new managers, everyone agreed that only 35% of the skills we learn as senior writers and editors in information development still apply when we become managers. That leaves 65% for new lear...

This study asked managers with different educational backgrounds and experience from variety of industries of a variety of sizes representing both genders and various predominant managerial functions at different levels to ‘describe the skills they think are necessary to perform their jobs effectively”. In particular, they were asked to rank 178 behavioral skills presented under 22 different ca...