What is an hybrid manager?

Answer 1

This concept deals with how people who have trained as specialists in their particular field get promoted to the level where they supervise other specialists to do their jobs, rather than these promoted people working as specialists themselves. An example could be a team leader (who though he may be in a junior position in the company's hierarchy), still gains significant management duties. This concept is also known as managerial hybrid. The term hybrid was originally coined by Peter Keen in the mid 1980s, but received its most precise and most quoted definition by Michael Earl:"A person with strong technical skills and adequate business knowledge or vice versa .... hybrids are people with technical skills able to work in user areas doing a line job, but adept at developing and implementing IT application ideas