In the business world of today, managers are more than just supervisors. They are the ones who recruit, retain, and inspire the people in a company. Given that employees are often considered a firm’s most valuable asset, the role of managers becomes even more critical. In this section, you will learn why companies need managers, what are their role and functions, and what makes for a successful manager.

In this section of the Management course, we cover the planning activity. You will learn about the objective pyramid and the steps in goal setting, the environment tools we can use, different techniques for resource allocation, and the modern planning methods.

This section focuses on employee recruitment, training, and retention. A good manager knows how to keep good employees, provide opportunities for personal development, and motivate people in the organization.

Recruiting skilled personnel with the right mindset is difficult, but there are some pre-hire activities that can facilitate the process. Some of the topics discussed in this section revolve around the different channels for staff selection.

This section of the Management course focuses on post-hire activities. Among the key topics discussed are onboarding of selected candidates, the importance of learning and development opportunities, giving productive feedback to employees, organizing performance appraisal meetings, and introducing fair compensation mechanisms.

In the last section, we discuss how to motivate employees. Constantly growing compensation is not sustainable, neither practical. As a manager, you need to find other ways to keep talented personnel engaged and satisfied.