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Posted on May 12th, 2010 in

Management Skills Job Interview Questions

in Brief:” Management

are questions that focus on evoking a reaction from a candidate for a

certain purpose – to provide a general image of the manager (i.e. the candidate).
How is that? Because the answers that the candidate provides present his way of thinking and demonstrate if he
can disentangle himself from a given situation with a good lesson learned – to see how skilled and experienced
he is”

Why would the

want to ask these management questions?

The employer wants to know how this particular manager will perform if hired, verifying his ability to think
about a complex problem and the way he may solve it – is he a follower or a natural leader?

This article provides manager interview questions and suggests how to handle these

tough manager interview

questions

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As opposed to any other interview questions, when answering these management questions, you should organize
your answer (the way you construct your answer – through the required elements of an answer) for the
interviewer to assess your managing skills.
Read further.

Manager Interview Questions & Answers – Leadership

• Examples of strategic thinking in past situations
• Have you ever challenged, shaken old

methods.

• How do you make your decisions in general?
• How do you reach a decision if you don’t have all the facts?
• How do you usually solve problems?
• Examples of situations when your initiative ideas for improvement have made a significant difference.
• How have you coordinated the work of your team to achieve target goals?
• Example of adaptation to changes and the difficulties.
• When did you last update

management education? What are your professional development

needs?
• How do you handle a heavy workload? How do you prioritize day to day tasks?
• How do you handle failures? Provide examples.
• How do you define your key team members?

How to answer these questions?
The above group of questions may be put forward to identify your leadership and management style and the
methods you take to achieve your objectives as a key leader in an organization. The employer would want to see
your initial reaction to these questions, how you analyze before answering and the quality of your answers – a
good story with a value added lesson learned.
I won’t give examples, as you probably know

your achievements

better than anyone else.

Management interview questions: Communication skills

• How do you build and maintain a relationship with co-workers, key managers and customers?
• How do you start a working relationship with a new customer?
• What are your influencing tactics? Which people are hard to persuade?
• How do you satisfy customers? What is a good product for customers? How do customers choose a product?

How to answer these questions?
The above group of questions is designed to define your communication skills and see how open you are to
forging new contacts – your networking abilities. These questions also aim to evaluate your sales skills and

experience. The employer wishes to observe how you behave when you meet new people. He also

wants to know if people like working with you and how you influence people. When answering, you may want
to provide past examples and recent scenarios.

Take a few seconds before answering

In summing up these management questions, the main thing is to evaluate the quality of the answers. If one has
already prepared his answers and “thought it through” (or “blurts them out”) without presenting his “thought
process”, he hasn’t really shown the interviewer his analytic mind – which was the whole point of these
questions.
Therefore, think before answering.

• The article refers to both men and women as candidates.

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For more questions and answers, you may read the articles –

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project manager interview

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