The Qualities of a Good Manager … What Does It Means? Lessons Learned from the Undergraduate Business Students’ Perception in Kingdom of Morocco

Younes Kohail,Aziz Soulhi,Jawad Obad,Youssef Saida

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v11n8p86

Abstract

<p>Qualities required to provide managers of what make them effective in their actions and behavior within the organizational structure generate, perpetually, the interest of researchers and professionals. Notwithstanding the prevailing conceptions, with reference to the subject of our research, make no consensus between the different stakeholders involved, among others, the college business students. This article is seeking clarification of the business students’ perception about the qualities required to be a good manager. Methodologically, our research was based on a quantitative questionnaire distributed to 500 college business students in Kingdom of Morocco to highlight their appreciation of the qualities needed to be a good manager. Factor analysis was used to analyze the data. Categorization, in the light of the business students’ perception, was made to aggregate, in blocks, the qualities required to be acknowledged as a good manager. As results, five factors underlying the business students’ perception were found. However these factors, when confronted to the literature, explicit certain divergences that could be explained by the students cognitive process problems.</p>

Highlights

The cognitive process and interpretation of organizational and managerial reality is complex and differs from one stakeholder to another
When this value is low it means that the variance of the variable is not much explained by the extracted factors and it might be excluded from the analysis
We endeavored to combine the qualities analyzed in well defined factors consecutively to facilitate understanding of the trend with reference to the perception of this future stakeholder in the company management in this case the undergraduate business students

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Introduction

The cognitive process and interpretation of organizational and managerial reality is complex and differs from one stakeholder to another During their academic studies (economics faculties, business schools and institutes, professional training centers, etc.), business students develop specific skills to achieve their possible integration in the company later. They forge a vision and have conceptions concerning certain aspects of the company management (Cole & Smith, 1996; Bodkin & Stevenson, 2007; Bageac, Furrer, & Reynaud, 2011), among others, the qualities required to be a good manager.

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