Project Requirements The purpose of this group project is to help you get a firsthand picture of the role of a manager and the skills required to perform that job successfully. Your assignment is to interview at least three managers from small, medium, and corporate businesses. You can choose businesses from retail, telecom, manufacturing, construction, technology (suppliers), hospitality, service, banking industries and so on. All businesses should be from Metro Vancouver area. You should develop the questions for your interviews that you think might help you identify effective management skills. The purpose of these interviews is to give you a chance to learn about critical managerial skills from those who must use them. See example of questions below. Sample Questions • Please describe a typical day at work. What do you do all day? • What are the most critical problems you face as a manager? • What are the most critical skills needed to be a successful manager in your line of work? • What are the major reasons managers fail in positions like yours? • What are the outstanding skills or abilities of other effective managers you have known? • If you had to train someone to replace you in your current job, what key abilities would you focus on? Please treat the interviews as confidential. The names of the individuals do not matter— only their opinions, perceptions, and behaviors are matter. Assure the managers that no one will be able to identify them from their responses. Keep written notes of your interviews. These notes should be as detailed as possible so you can reconstruct the interviews later. Be sure to keep a record of each person’s job title and a brief description of his or her organization. Approaching businesses • Develop survey style questionnaire by using Practice, Homework, and research papers • Conduct a one-on-one meeting with a manager and comprehend their daily functions. Final report must have the following: • Letter to the instruction explaining the purpose behind this research • Introduction and Background • Purpose of research • Technical description of work • Structure of the business • Interaction between employees and management • Issues faced by management and skills used by a manager to solve issues • Role of technology • Your learnings • Recommendations and conclusion • References Additional optional work (Addendum #1) • Company's technical operations and how managers can learn technical knowledge, skills. • Employee-manager relationship, work co-ordination and overall collaboration details • List of Project deliverables and reports which the management team is required to produce e.g., Risk Matrix, Quantitative decision making, Cost-Benefit Report • Difference in role and responsibilities of business development manager and operations manager • Describe in detail the overall day-to day working narrative of the managementteam • Recent changes and future trends in the management role and management tools.