It has long been recognized that for managers to be successful at their role they need to possess a range of skills, all of which are important. However, it could be argued that some skills are more important than others.

The skills that managers need include the following:

• technical
• interpersonal
• conceptual
• communications
• time-management
• decision-making

Within your group, consider two different managers at the same advertising agency: one is a supervisor who manages a creative team of six people who produce ads, commercials and promotions, and the other is a vice-president who manages the finance department which consists of fifty people who handle accounting and financial tasks for the agency.

For each manager (the supervisor and the VP) rank the six skills types from most important to least important, then follow up with an explanation as to why you ranked the skills the way you did. Please cite your work