You have been promoted from being an effective manager in one department (financ

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You have been promoted from being an effective manager in one department (finance) to be the manager in another department (manufacturing). Production is low, and has declined in recent months. That is why you got the job! The manager you are replacing did not work with his group to do much work with respect to production rates, he focused on placing systems, for doing things right with respect to avoiding human errors, but he was not focusing on doing the right things when it related to maintaining high production rates which was the critical outcome from a manufacturing standpoint. Your supervisors are not performing as required, overtime costs are increasing, you have equipments that are down with mechanical problems, and your metric system is not giving the right visibility for you to have the right information for decision making. Answer the following:

i. Was the manager that you replaced efficient or effective?

ii. Do you foresee any issues with your change from finance to manufacturing, could you be as effective in your new role, is your management ability universal?

iii. Based on the presented case study, evaluate your resources as a manager, list the 4 manager’s resources and recommend how to improve each based on the issues presented.

iv. Which of the management skills will you apply to turn around the current situation as a manufacturing manager, also based on your previous financial background what management skill will you need to improve or further develop?

Explanation / Answer

i. the person is one of the efficient manager, there is no doubt about it. but he is perfect in the area of finance, but he placed in the area of production. that itself is a blunder.

ii) no, i may not perform in a better way in my new role. because the activity requires different kind of skills which i do not have. so, i may not perform effectively in my new role. and management concept is universal, but it is not the same for all activities, all the times and everywhere.

iii) being as a manager, you should plan, and use resources in a better way, which turns into better results. but in this case the manager makes two mistakes, one is the finance department lost one professional person, and the second one is a right person has been posted into a wrong position.

the core activities of a manager: employ the required resources, pool the resources, allocate them in a proper way which helps the firm to reach its goals and achieve trade off between risk and return.

iv) the basic work i can look over is using the resources in a proper way, plan the production levels, and make the resources to work for it.

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