UNI Rant

[Kimmie]

Couldn't leave it be could you ginge....

I don't agree at all with what you've just said. I actually think it's pretty important for a manager to understand the role his staff carry out, otherwise how can you effectively manage them??

For example, there is no way I could manage the cleaning team without understanding their schedules, their procedures for carrying out tasks, the aspects of their role which are difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis etc. I couldn't assign the correct person to a task or put together a decent schedule. A small example, but I could go on for the Security team, catering, maintenance. For the record, I don't know as much as I should for those roles, but my manager does. And the only way she's learnt that is by working her way up through every department, so she has inside out knowledge of the whole team/job specification.

Also, central managerial roles are not just for those who are educated to degree level. Going back to the job experience, it's more valuable to have experience within that role/department than it is to have studied it from a classroom.