Managerial skills and Globalization in Automotive Industry

Abstract

Management has a special role in the field of globalization. Management has essential role in any organization with the responsibilities of goal setting, planning, resource allocation, organization, human resources, providing education, motivation and leadership, and finally monitoring and assessment of the survival and development of organization. Therefore, the present research has been conducted to rank the managerial skills needed for global managers of automotive industry with globalization approach. The population of the study consists of 1020 executives of Iran's automotive industry from 13 automotive companies. the statistical sample is determined 470 people using Cochran formula. After distributing questionnaires and collecting data, information analysis has done by SPSS software and descriptive statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Friedman tests. Friedman test results showed that among the components of managerial skills, effective motivation, self-awareness, stress management, constructive communication, effective problem solving, using technologies, team management skill, delegation of authority, leading positive change, adaptability, influence on others, effective conflict management and applying management requirements has the highest and lowest value in the management skills group.