Managerial Skills in Different Organizational Levels

Nowadays, recognizing and applying managerial skills truly target their activities at achieving goals. The aim of this study is to present a model for measuring managerial skills in different organizational levels. Regarding method, this study has a mixed method (using qualitative meta-synthesis method and Delphi method in the first phase and quantitative survey method and its analysis by means of DANP method in the second phase). And, regarding the goal, this is a practical study. In the first phase of the study, all related research published in Iranian and foreign valid scientific databases were studied using meta-synthesis method and the model was confirmed by Delphi. In the second phase, the statistical population was consisted of all managers in South Zagros Oil and Gas Exploitation Company chosen by purposive sampling method. The results of this study shows that the dimensions of team working, technology and problem solving skills have the most importance among top managers respectively; the dimensions of technology, learning and communication skills have the most importance among middle managers respectively, and the dimensions of learning, communication and technology skills have the most importance among first-line managers respectively.