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Agree or more experience. I hate it when managers try to tell people what to do, but have no clue
what the job is like. It would just benefit them, as well as others. |
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I think that people who are better at selling themselves will make it to higher positions over time. |
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The idea of having managers run the organizations is that they are equipped with the knowledge on
how to manage resources and functions without having expertise in the technical areas. People with
technical knowledge on the other hand have a different set of skills that are more technical and
less managerial.
The technical staff and managers have different criteria to move up the hierarchy and each should be
judged on what they are trained to do. It is pointless for managers to have technical knowledge (or
excellence) and similarly it is absurd for the technical staff to be required to excel managerial
skills just to get a promotion they just need to be good at what they are doing. |
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I disagree with this comment. That may be the case in some jobs, but here in the United States your
knowledge does not always help you on the job. If you know someone hirer in the business or if you
are well liked by superiors in a company, then you are more likely to move up in a career. It is
sad, but it is true. I have known some really bright people who were near the bottom at a job and
never advanced because they were not well liked on the job. On the other hand, I have known some
real idiots who were at the top of the ladder. In many jobs in the US, it pays more to kiss butt
than it does to get knowledge. |
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Most managerial staff, even in organisations which specialise in providing technical services, lack
strong technical skills. Therefore technical competence is clearly not an absolute requirement for
career progression into the upper echelons of a company.
Whether that's the way it should be or not is another matter. Many technical projects fail or are
massively behind schedule or over budget. Perhaps with the promotion of technical staff into
managerial positions, this would not be as much of a problem. |
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Techies, certainly in IT at any rate, don’t always make the best managers. Or the best people to
have in a customer-facing role.
It’s like comedians wanting to be singers and singers wanting to be comedians, each should stick
to what they know. In my experience, in and out of IT, technical knowledge is not a requirement for
managerial jobs. In fact, it seems sometimes to be the case that the less they know, the higher they
go.
Technical knowledge is, and probably won’t be any time soon, a requirement for managerial roles. A
broad working knowledge yes, but not in-depth knowledge of the arcane intricacies. The whole
question is one of square pegs and round holes, getting the right people with the right skills. |
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26 Jan 2008 19:25
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