Key-abilities for successful managers in competitive economies (I)

Abstract

The following paper will try to explore the concept of a successful manager, as well as to evaluate whether there is one essential ingredient that managers are compelled to possess if they are to achieve performance; although emphasis will be placed on social and human skills, there will also be evidence in support of the ideas that effective managers need all three skills - conceptual, human and technical - and that each of these skills could prove, at some point or another, to be essential for survival, but also useless unless supported by the others two.personnel management, labor contracting devices