Managers must be…

According to Henry Mintzberg: Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet. This line tells us that management is not only just one aspect in the business but a combination of some. Managers involve different duties and responsibilities in the daily operations of the business. A lot of tasks are needed to be accomplished in order to meet the deadlines, thus, the managers need to possess the knowledge and skills to meet the minimum requirements that the company is demanding from him.

Since managers are expected to do things out of their respective tasks, they must have certain characteristics that will help them perform these tasks with positive output and best results. From my point of view, these managers must always be open-minded, a good motivator, and an innovative leader.

One trait that a manager should possess is being open-minded. Open-minded to all the possibilities that could happen and maximizing all the benefits entailed which those changes. From these changes that could probably have an effect to the organization, some managers are still hesitant to these changes because they are still used to the processes that they are practicing within the organization. However, if these will be properly address by informing the managers that these changes will give benefits, maybe there will be a point in time that these managers will be convinced and shift to the new and revolutionary ideas and processes that help increase their performance and productivity.

From this trait of being open-minded, it also suggests that the manager should also be an innovative leader. Being an innovative leader possesses traits that would facilitate the organization into a more progressive and productive through the use of the current technologies available at hand or the potential technologies that they will initiate to hasten the work with accuracy and fast speed. Also, this will help the organization to bring out the best in their performance and finding their organization on top of their industry.

Lastly, without this trait, everyone else in the organization has no reason to do work or even to stay in the organization. A manager needs to be a good motivator because these managers deal with people with different characteristics and personalities, considering also that each employee has different mental, emotional, and physical capacity. Being a good motivator must make his or her people be more than satisfied of what they already have taking into account also that the majority of the workforce are the millennials, who are very competent in every aspect of work, in which they prefer to work in a place that they find happiness and satisfaction.  

These traits are just some that the managers should possess in order for them to be more successful in reaching their organizational goals most especially when they are participating in making decisions in the aspect of information system, which is very vital in the daily operations of the business.