Abstract—Daily growing of Internet technologies presents complicated opportunities and challenges to organizations and guiding them to develop new managerial roles and practices. Academic researchers and business associations worldwide, conducted several studies, which emphasized on clarifying managers’ skills and competences, but there isn’t an overall outlook on today’s requirements for e-commerce management. Different companies have different points of view on what the e-commerce manager’s roles and functions are. Some businesses believe that e-commerce management includes marketing functions; others dedicate it to IT functions or web design and web development. In fact, e-commerce managers are in charge of all related aspects of their business, from financial perspective to website maintenance. Moreover, managerial decisions play a substantial role in organization’s performance efficiency and competitiveness in the irregular electronic era. So it is crucial for business owners to be aware of latest e-skills to get their business started successfully or either to help it develop. This paper studies why and how e-commerce managers are trained to deploy IT infrastructures for their business achievements. Particularly, as e-commerce introduces new ways to international business in which even small firms can operate as global rivals, this article aimed to have a brief overview about e-commerce management and e-skill training in current business.

Index Terms—Business needs, business schools, electronic commerce, managerial e-skills.

R. Yazdanifard is with the Center of Post Graduate Studies, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (email: rashadyazdanifard@yahoo.com).
A. Zargar is with the department of Human Resource Management in Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. (email: zargar_adnis@yahoo.com).

Cite: Rashad Yazdanifard and Adnis Zargar , "Today Need of e-Commerce Management to e-Skill Trainings ," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 052-058, 2012.