Management Case

Introduction

In the organizational structure there is hierarchy in the system for the smooth functioning. Management decide the role & responsibility of each position in the organization & prefer to work it in systematic way. In this system individual at particular position is report to person who is higher in the rank & work in collaborative manner with him as per direction. Manager is leading a team of subordinate to achieve goal & target given to him by organization. Earlier mostly Manager use to be experienced person in the domain & using his knowledge & expertise he leads the team in the organization. Managers are getting younger and younger, it seems. Interestingly, these young managers are now leading a team comprising of hardworking, dedicated workers of older generations. Now a day's due to educational Institutes young generation is joining the industry as a manager by taking proper course in specific domain. These managers usually lead a team which comprises of people with different age group, gender, region and religions. Usually difficulties occur due to age difference between manager & officers and if this age difference is more then it's more uncomfortable for someone. We can see many such cases in the every industry now a day's where young manager is leading a team & subordinates are older than him. Sometimes due to proper understanding between themselves these team outperform also in the organization.

Objective

To find out the 'Is it difficult for Young manager to work with older subordinates in the organization?' Here it is vital important to observe the how young manager handle his subordinates, involve them in completing task given to the team. Also subordinates response to young manager in delivering the contribution to team when he is leading them. The frequency of such condition is increasing so it is worthful to study the various aspects in this case.

Methodology

The situation of the Young manager leading team we can observe in various sector like manufacturing, telecom, service & IT sector. In public Sector this proportion is less while in case of this trend is increasing so I select two sectors i.e. manufacturing & service for the studying the scenario. These two sectors have much cultural diversity present so it's beneficial to understand the condition from two cultures. The observation collected from different background also as I took example from shop-floor in case of manufacturing while purely office example from IT industry. I decided to discuss personally over the phone with those people & compile the data. I asked the questions which are relevant to the topic & help me in analysing the data. I interacted with team which working on shop-floor at Mahindra Nasik as a case from manufacturing while another team which