Management and systemic view of the company
When I was in college, the teachers highlighted the need for the Administrator to have a general vision of the company and its activities.
Unfortunately in the academic curriculum, transdisciplinarity is practically nonexistent, which largely prevents the student to understand the interrelationships among the topics addressed by different materials.
However, in professional life, these interrelationships are key to understand and act quickly on the changes that occur in everyday business.
The management activity requires the Administrator to exercise the vision of the whole, or systemic.
For this he needs a broad technical background and a total interest in continuous learning. Only thus can be considered a true professional as a manager.
The systems view is only possible from the knowledge of the characteristics and concept of the systems.
A system is no more than one set of interconnected elements, which form a unit package. This unit, to function properly, needs to have its elements working in harmony, in order to achieve a particular purpose.
A human body is a system: its basic purpose is to stay alive as best as possible.
A computer program is a system: an inventory control program aims to adequate control of drives and cost of materials.
A company also is, thrive and profit is their main purpose.
The functions of a manager go through the following steps:
- Plan;
- Analysis;
- Solve problems;
- Organize and direct resources;
- Lead employees;
- Negotiate;
- Take quick decisions and agreed;
- Control the whole process, so that none of the previous steps to become vulnerable.
Given this list of critical activities, we note that management is not for everyone.
To serve them properly, it is necessary to use systemic, requiring the manager's knowledge and wider about the activities of the organization and all departments. This will force you to do too much "homework" in order to prepare properly.
There are few business cases they fail due to lack of knowledge of professionals who are in the position of managers, but unfortunately, are not really.
Experts are not the best people for management positions. This does not mean that they can not become good managers, through the study and time.
Take for example the medical specialist. One of the biggest complaints of the population does not see the symptoms of the individual as a whole, which causes incorrect treatments are given. Hence the need of having good general practitioners. They are what should refer a patient to a specialist right, after a proper diagnosis of your symptoms.
The same thing happens with a company. When you're an expert, the analysis can be blocked by wrong assumptions, derived from the vices of specialization.
For a company to achieve its purpose of existence, the manager must be well prepared. He should have an interest in all organizational aspects, even if the subject is "boring" and not much interest at first sight. Just so that he knows what is happening in a particular department can affect the entire organization, or that the change "x" of the legislation will change the market in which the company operates in a way.
Inform is always on a wide range of issues and their interrelationships, is the obligation of anyone who wants to be a real manager.
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