Real-Life Manager Interview

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1. Choose a manager (who supervises multiple employees) with whom you can sit face-to-face for 30 minutes to ask some managerial questions.

Required interview questions:

1. How many employees do you supervise directly? What do they do? (generally, e.g. clerks, technicians, auditors, managers, etc.) What kind of information about them do you keep track of (e.g. their experience, skills, etc.) that is necessary to manage them effectively?

2. Do you manage employees individually or as a whole group?

3. Do you keep track of or measure any workplace attitudes (e.g. job satisfaction, employee engagement, etc.)? Why? How do you measure them?

4. How do you motivate your employees?

5. Can you give me some tips on how to be an effective leader?

6. How do you resolve conflicts in the workplace? Do you need to play politics sometimes?

You can ask additional or follow-up questions as well. After the interview, organize the answers and prepare 4- to 5-page, essay-type report that consists of the following titles/sections:

. Manager’s Name - Title – Organization – General responsibilities

. Employees Supervised (questions 1-2)

. Workplace Attitudes of Interest (question 3)

. Motivation Methods-Tools (question 4)

. Effective Leadership Tips (question 5)

. Conflict Resolution Methods (question 6)

. Analysis & Recommendations

. Lessons Learned

Under the header “analysis and recommendations,” critically analyze each of the manager’s answers BASED ON CLASS TOPICS/MODELS/THEORIES WE COVERED.

Make recommendations and suggest improvements for the manager.

Under “lessons learned,” report the lessons you learned in this interview and how you can use this new understanding in your own career. Give specific examples of how you will do this in your career (at school, work, sports club, etc.).

Submit this assignment individually via the assignment link on Blackboard on or before the due date. Following is the grading rubric:

Scoring Base	Rating = 7	Rating = 5	Rating = 3	Rating = 1	Score
Quality -- Effort invested in this work	The writing reflects that the student put much effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons / recommendations.	The writing reflects that the student put adequate effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons / recommendations.	The writing reflects that the student put less than adequate effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons / recommendations.	The writing reflects that the student put too little effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons / recommendations.
	The writing provides	The writing	The writing provides	The writing
Quality of the	in-depth critical	provides sufficient	weak analysis of	provides very poor
analyses, &	analysis of all	critical analysis of	answers. Some	analysis of
recommendations	answers based on	all answers based	answers are not	answers. Some
	class topics. Student	on class topics.	analyzed. Student	answers are not
	provides detailed	Student provides	provides minimal	analyzed. Student
	recommendations/	multiple	recommendations/	provides no
	suggestions. Lessons	recommendations/	suggestions. OR	recommendations/
	learned are used to	suggestions.	Lessons learned are	suggestions. OR
	come up with	Lessons learned are	used only to list	Lessons learned
	specific real-life	used to come up	general, vague	section is missing.
	goals for the student.	with some real-life	goals.
		goals for the
		student.
		.	The writing has all	The writing is
Structure			required	missing some
			titles/sections	required
			showing all of the	titles/sections.
			required topics.	Paragraphing and
			Paragraphing and	transitions are
			transitions are also	adequate.
			clear and very good.
			The writing has no	The writing has a
Basic			errors in word	few errors in word
Grammar			selection and use,	selection and use,
			sentence structure,	sentence structure,
			spelling,	spelling,
			punctuation, and	punctuation, and
			capitalization.	capitalization.
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