Management Skills
List out five important management skills associated with operations management?
1.Differentiate dynamic scheduling and dynamic inventory. How would you integrate them to enhance productivity?
i think that these could be important
1) being kind
2) good organisation
3) agility
4) need to know ( do you know what i mean)
5) quality perfomance
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Stress Manager
I had an ex employee return and want to make her a manager?
she left two years ago but was a wonderful and valuable employee who had a breakdown do to stress/overwork and now she's coming back i would like to make her a manager becuase of her knowledge and skill level but the employee's who stayed may feel slighted becuase they have worked hard and wont undrestand my decision and feel she was weak,but the other employees do not have the ablity to think profitablity nor do they have the character for operations management what would you do in this situation?
Being the "boss" is all about making those decisions that others can not make, and most of them are hard but what you have to remember is that whatever you decide is best for the company. If I was in your situation I would not make her boss yet, if she couldn't handle the pressure before, then what makes you think she is going to handle it any better now? Was something going on in her life before that isn't today? Maybe, but how are you to know for sure? You can hire her back but hire her back as a regular employee. If you have already mentioned the "manager" position to her then you need to explain to her that she is on a trial bases, that what happened last time cannot happen again and if she shows you improvement then there is going to be room for movement. improvement equals movement. Don't promote her/him just because you have nobody else to promote, i understand the rest of the employees are not qualified, but you don't put "good enough" in a management position. You want someone who can and will run the show when your gone.
