Mr. Ram an electronic engineer from ABC engineering college contributed his service in X Electrical Engineering Company for 10 years as a production incharge. Recently he was promoted a production manager. He was excellent in designing and developing new electronic products. The newly designed product like freeze, television, mobile sets received wide appreciation at nationa and international market. He is respected for his contribution in new products research and development. As a research oriented person he always was updated with new research journals and publications of electronic engineering. Ram, in one angle was an efficient engineer in his own profession and in another angle, a popular guy among the employees of the company. His efficiency in profession, experience, ability to work with people convinced management of the company to promote him into manager of production department. Ram now needs to supervise 25 engineers which is challenging job. He is experiencing a lot of difficulties in managerial job as compared to a professional engineer. His continued work for long hours in order to develop new design and model of the products is hampering his main job. He is unable to give sufficient time to provide direction and coordination to subordinate engineers that top level management felt is necessary to achieve maximum effectiveness and goal of the company. Moreover, Ram is facing pressure from some engineers who believe that he is efficient in his engineering work and not in a managerial role. Ram wants to improve his work as a manager, hence has decided to discuss with top management about the problem he is facing so that efficiency of the company can be improved. Mention the major problems faced by Ram as a manager.