Managerial skills

Managerial skills are certain skills that managers need in order to do their jobs effectively. These skills include conceptual, technical, administrative and human-relation skills.

Conceptual skills are the mental abilities, needed to acquire, analyze, and interpret information, received from various sources, and to make complex decisions. This is the ability to «see the big picture», to plan ahead.

Technical skills include the ability to use the knowledge, tools and techniques of a specific discipline or field. Every industry, every company and enterprise, and every job has its special technical requirements.

Administrative skills include the administrator's ability process paper work in an orderly manner and manage expenditures within the limits set by a budget.

Managers need a network of contacts and human relationships, because to achieve organizational goals a manager has to use the efforts of other people. Therefore, human-relation skills are very important skills for a manager. Human-relation skills are abilities to understand other people and to interact effectively with them.

Conceptual, technical, administrative and human-relation skills can be acquired through education and experience.

1.1. Read and translate the text “Managerial Skills” in writing.

1.2. Answer the questions to the text.

1. What are managerial skills? 2. What skills do they include? 3. What do conceptual skills include? 4. What does “to see the big picture” mean? 5. What do technical skills include? 6. What do administrative skills include? 7. What do human-relation skills include? 8. Why are they so important? 9. How can a person acquire these skills?

1.3. Complete the sentences with a logical ending.

1.	Managerial skills are …	A	the mental abilities, needed to acquire, ana- lyze, and interpret information, received from various sources, and to make complex decisions.
2.	These skills include …	B	the administrator's ability process paper work in an orderly manner and manage expenditures within the limits set by a budget.
3.	Conceptual skills are …	C	a manager.
4.	Human-relation skills are abilities …	D	the efforts of other people.
5.	Technical skills include …	E	education and experience.
6.	Conceptual skills are the ability …	F	certain skills that managers need in order to do their jobs effectively.
7.	Conceptual, technical, admi-nistrative and human-relation skills can be acquired through …	G	to «see the big picture», to plan ahead.
8.	To achieve organizational goals a manager has to use …	H	to understand other people and to interact effectively with them.
9.	Human-relation skills are very important skills for …	J	the ability to use the knowledge, tools and techniques of a specific discipline or field.
10.	Administrative skills include …	I	conceptual, technical, administrative and human-relation skills.

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