This document discusses competencies for event managers and middle managers. It examines how event managers lead through interviews and questionnaires measuring leadership dimensions. Professionalism is identified as a key quality for effective management. The duties of a typical manager's job are also outlined, including recruiting, training, supervision, budgeting, compliance, inventory, and financial record keeping.

1. Module 2: Competencies
Team Members: Shelby Peters, Yasmin Donker, Todra Bellamy, Savannah Fox

2. Manager’s Job

3. How Event Managers Lead
Key Points
 Event Management has rapidly grown as an Industry
 Companies seek event managers to plan events
 To conduct this study, event managers were interviewed as participants
 Leadership Dimensions Questionnaire (LDQ) was used in the study
 This questionnaire is based on if successful leaders engage in:
 Managerial Competence
 Motional Intelligence
 IQ
 Fifteen Leadership Dimensions Depending on the Type of Management

4. Professionalism: A Key Quality of Effective
Manager
Key Points
 An effective manager must have:
 Professionalism
 Effective management skills
 Goals attainment
 Work improvement

5. Job Involvement and Performance Among
Middle Managers in Sri Lanka
Key Points
 Need to understand that both employees and managers need to be monitor
 Typical duties in a manager’s job include:
 recruiting
 Training and supervision of both new and current employees
 budgeting spending
 ensuring employee compliance with all rules and regulations
 maintaining inventory/stock
 as well as keeping up with the financial records within the company.