Accounting
Judging Managers:
A Guide to the
Assessment of Managers
Management has never been defined by a set protocol, and therefore the judgment of managers has not encompassed a set standard. Rather, the act of assessing what would make a ?good? or ?bad? manager has been a recent field of study in efforts to help eliminate undesirable individuals from potentially acquiring management positions.
The importance of management is exemplified due to a worker?s value being determined namely by the way they are being managed, and the value of a company being determined on how well their employees work. Management, being a discipline, is an organized body of knowledge and therefore managers should be evaluated on how well they comprehend, and execute the comprehension of that knowledge. (Drucker) To be able to have a certain criteria to follow in judging managers will enable a company to determine if an individual is actually helping a company reach their goal.
There is a huge market for testing centers and often a very gullible one, due to the high salaries of managers and companies wanting more than a resume and some references. They can be effective if the company is actually doing something
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