Study of Soft Skills of Successful Management Professionals During Global Pandemic Era

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Shreshtha Bohra, Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Mathur, Dr. Pragya Mishra

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This paper attempts to review the literature that discusses the importance of diverse skills that the 21st century management professionals could do with, to demonstrate to be a value addition to the organizations and make a persistent momentous contribution to the augmentation and progress of the organizations. This is absolutely indispensable because the world economic order has collapsed like a pack of cards and most of the nations across globe are reeling under the onslaught of this pandemic with plummeted GDPs and loss of millions of jobs since 2020. One should never forget that till some time ago everyone was talking about the global economic prosperity and new job opportunities in the 21st century. The corporate environment with the influx of Gen Z in to job market made the overall ambience more competitive than ever before. The beginning of third decade of 21st century coupled with pandemic situation since the start of 2020 has made it tougher. The onus is on shoulders of Gen X to mentor the Gen Z and make them be beneficial to their masters with the newer acquisition of skills. The external environment of present times is not only precarious, but also absolutely ruthless to the professionals across all industries and only those who can embrace change as a way of life and continue to adapt themselves with the changing scenario would survive and lead the pack of professionals in the times to come. Rest will fade away. It won’t be incorrect to say with responsibility that only those management professionals are on a winning streak that are constantly changing the orbit of their skill sets and ironing out their shortcomings with the passage of time. The paper is an attempt on the part of researcher to deal with those skills that would be explaining the amalgamated skills for such professionals which would provide wheels of momentum to their professional progress and help them be at the pinnacle of their careers in the lesser time period in the corporate world.

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