Managing people is a specialized skill. Both employees and employers should require that those in management positions have the necessary training and credenti

Managing people is a specialized skill. Both employees and employers should require that those in management positions have the necessary training and credentials to perform the task. This means either taking a specialized management curriculum at university or being put through a comprehensive management training course. It takes four or five years of education at a University to get an engineering degree, yet businesses somehow find it acceptable to make anyone a manager regardless of whether they have been trained.