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The ability to understand, communicate with, motivate and support other people, both individually and in groups, defines which of the following management skills?

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UGC NET 2014 Paper 3 Electronic Science Question Paper (28-Dec-2014)
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Soft Skills

Managerial skills are usually classified by what they operate on - things and techniques, people, or ideas. The description here is entirely about dealing with people, so we look for the people-oriented category.

The ability to understand others, communicate with them, motivate them and support them, whether one-to-one or in groups, defines soft skills. Soft skills are the interpersonal and behavioural abilities a manager uses to work effectively through other people, and every element in the description - understanding, communicating, motivating, supporting - is an interpersonal act.

Hard skills are the technical, job-specific and measurable abilities such as accounting or operating a system, which is not what is described. Conceptual skills are the capacity to see the organisation as a whole and to analyse abstract, complex situations, an idea-oriented rather than people-oriented ability. Political skills concern building a power base and influencing others to advance one's position, a narrower and more self-serving notion than the supportive abilities listed.

Hence the ability described defines soft skills.

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