Managerial Requirements And Characteristics: A Proposal For Woolworths Limited

Managerial Requirements and Characteristics

This proposal depicts the importance of practical learning those are necessary to possess by a manager to meet the managerial requirement of any business organization. In order to develop this proposal the nominated company is Woolworths Limited. The company is headquartered in Australia that serves their products in both New Zealand and Australia. The complexity of the managerial post can be completely resolved if the managers of the business organization play appropriate roles. I have been working as a project manager in Woolworths Limited. As, the company serves both online and offline service in Australia and New Zealand thus in order to meet the service level requirement of the consumers it is very much important for the manager to analyze their job roles properly.

For becoming managers of Woolworths Limited both the formal and in formal requirements are also elaborated in this proposal. Not only this, but also the managerial characteristics those are needed to be possessed by the managers to meet the requirement of the consumers are also elaborated in this research proposal. The principle characteristics of every individual groups and the external environment for the individual groups are illustrated in this research paper. After identification of the associated issues to Woolworths Limited it is necessary to propose proper solution as per the job role analysis. However, in order to mitigate the issues, certain recommendations are also elaborated in this proposal.  

In order to serve the requirement of the consumers it is very much necessary for the manager to possess certain critical features and those characteristics area as follows:

A technical proficient: The manager is needed to be a technical proficient, as Woolworths Limited has both the online and offline service providing ability thus the manager must have technical experiences so that if any kind of technical failure occurs then those could have been resolved easily (Tourish, 2014).

Be a visionary: The managers must have unique vision so that they could differentiate their service management system from the other industries.  

A well communicator: The manager must have the ability to communicate properly with the other project team members and employees as well so that the employees also feel free to share their point of views with others (Raelin, 2016). Moreover, it can be said that open communication is the only approach that helps the manager to use the unusual resources appropriately.

Encouragement towards professional growth: The managers are expected to grow their knowledge and skills and also of the team members as well (Northouse, 2015). The main aim is to make the company more consumers focused with different technical criteria.

Key Managerial Characteristics

Before becoming a manager of Woolworths Limited the HR executives look for different unique criteria such as creativity, proper responsibility, leadership quality, motivating activities etc. With the help of these activities the organizational goal can be reached.

The specific job duties and the responsibilities of a manager are as follows:

• Staff maintenance through the help of selection recruiting, orientation and arrangement of training for the employees
• Additionally, maintenance of safe as well as legal ambiance and development of personal growth opportunities
• The staff results should be accomplished with the help of communication about the job description, planning, appraisal, monitoring and controlling as well.
• The other duties are coaching, counseling, maintaining employees development with improving standard productivity, policies and procedure.

Treat with the staffs professionally: The staffs are needed to be treated like professional so that the work environment can be maintained properly.

Special role play: Some special features are needed to be served by the manager so that they might be remembered over a decade and also could be shared with the entire project development group. Budget is another most important thing that is strictly needed to be considered so that no such budget breakage took place (Fairhurst & Connaughton, 2014). A manager should also focus on memory creation business.

List of other individual or groups from the inside and outside the organization

The staffs of Woolworths Limited are as follows:

The critical ability to fulfill the requirement of the job

The staff group or teams listed in the above section are required to have proper ideas regarding the supply chain managerial categories and budget estimation well. Additionally the group must have proper focus on the consumer requirements so that they could meet the consumer’s requirement sooner (Chiabrishvili & Chiabrishvili, 2013). Again both the executives and Non executives must have a leadership and motivational feature so that the employees who are working for the company feel free to work with the managerial head.

I have selected these particular groups of people because I felt that, the demographic features of these people are helpful for to me to meet the requirement of the consumers. In addition to this, I also felt that, they use open communication technique while communicating to me and thus I feel free to share my point of views regarding the technical as well as managerial improvement of the company.

As the operation and functional application of Woolworths Limited are running quite well and good thus, we do not need the help from the outsiders or partners to meet the requirement of the consumers (Day et al., 2014). Due to this reason the people outside of the organization are not considered.

The groups of people listed above are interdependent on each other it means that in order to meet the requirement of the consumers they need support from each other. It is expected that the group could maintain all the project staffs with professional communication, coaching, financial management, with developing strategic business goals (Fairhurst & Connaughton, 2014). The executives and the non executives are expecting me to think out of box rather in a different way so that our company could get competitive advantages from the market.

Figure 1: Organizational chart for Woolworths Limited

(Source: Johnston & Marshall, 2016, pp- 30)

Figure 2: Network Diagram for the manager’s relationship

(Source: created by author)

Technical support: Proper technical support from both the internal and external environments is needed to be adopted by the management authority.

Training and development: Proper training and development programs are required to be arranged.

Leadership: Leadership and motivational support are needed to be possessed.

After considering the roles and responsibilities of the executives and project managers if Woolworths Limited it is determined that, the data management system used by the company is very week thus, no such preferable changes are needed.

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