What is the duty of a management trainee?

Answer 1

It really depends on the management position they are training for, the type of business, and the trainee's previous on-the-job training in the business and experience. It also depends on the amount of authority the manager, owner, or corporation is willing to delegate to their level. Often times the responsibility and authority is surrendered in stages so that the trainee is not overwhelmed. Some corporations who francise may have their own internal training courses to familiarize the trainee to most aspects of the job before assigning them to a probationary manager.

In retail and restaurant business, management training may include: shift management, computing time cards and payroll sheets, inventory oversight, keeping purveyor ledgers, filling out budget sheets, assisting or participating in personnel hiring, evaluation, and termination actions, scheduling employees, ensuring health and safety (OSHA) compliance and periodically attending to and escorting inspectors, ensuring preventative maintenance is performed as scheduled, making deposits, monitoring cleanliness, resolving consumer complaints, authorizing outsourcing, subordinate delegation, Ensuring employee compliance with Standard Operating Proceedures (SOP), (OSHA), and health department guidelines, New employee orientation, monitoring employee co-operation and moral, etceteras.

To find out what actual duties will be required for a particular job opening, the first person who should be asked is the individual interviewing job applicants. Even if that person only works for the personnel office, and not the department seeking an employee, they will have a full listing of the job description, what will be required of an applicant for that specific position, and any additional skills sought, but not required that might place consideration of one applicant ahead of another. If you don't ask, they may not tell you.