Managerial Interview Organizing

Directions

For this assignment, you will arrange to interview persons in a managerial position in a business with which you are familiar. The business should have at least 10 employees.

There are a total of five managerial interviews that you will complete over the course of the semester. Do not interview the same person for more than two of the interviews. The interviews all have a theme and the information you are asking for will begin to put together a picture of management functions.

General Submission Criteria

After each interview, write a paper in which you:

• Briefly describe the company
• Briefly describe the person you interviewed
• Include a little background on the person such as their time with the company, education etc.
• Detail the answers to each of the interview questions

Save your work as a .doc, .rtf, or PDF file, and upload to the corresponding dropbox.

Recommendations

For this interview, ask the following questions:

Question 1: Is there an organizational chart for the company? (If so, ask for a copy.)

Question 2: Does the organization of the company create issues or challenges in communication or decision making? Are there communication practices that work well?

Question 3: What span of control does each layer of the management team have?

Question 4: What is the frequency of the communication between the different management levels? How does it take place? Officially? Unofficially?

Question 5: At what level does the communication flow to the lowest level of the organization?