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. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays e-business is considered as a standard in industry [1]. Enormous extension of dot-com businesses makes e-commerce as a vital component and heart of global economy in the twenty-first century, which its impact is undeniable in almost all organizations and segments [2]-[4]. However, national wealth and different technological capabilities like information infrastructure and Internet access expenses differ countries in the degree of Internet usage and e-commerce adoption, more people around the world increasingly tend to buy, sell, transfer or exchange products, services, and/or information through the computer mediated network and Interne [5], [6]. It was reported that the money transactions which shoppers spend online is almost doubled each year [7]. The presence of e-commerce is also leading to important changes in the way business is operated Manuscript received December 27, 2011; revised January 30, 2012. 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). [7]-[10]. As a result, e-commerce firms could save 5%–10% or more in their business costs [9]. Such changes are developing the way companies gain wealth and create shareholder’s value. Furthermore, e-commerce allows companies to simply make their businesses effective, increase customer service and provide digital services and products [7]. So that, organizations consider e-commerce ups and downs as giving strategic opportunities to boost their ordinary situations [7], [11] and acquiring competitive advantages to reach their organizational goals more effectively and efficiently rather than other rivals [8], [10], [12], [13]. But the point is that investing in e-commerce alone cannot bring sufficient improvements to business performance, especially if there is no coherence with the firm’s environment and strategic objectives. As a reason, enterprises have to improve their technology, change and knowledge management capabilities, and that’s why they need to receive added support from academia like universities, researchers or knowledge transfer agents [1]. So that, this study tends to show that e-business impacts on firms’ performance is influential just when accompanied with strong managerial supervision [14]. As one of the top chiefs within an organization, a manager is the architect and central power of the firm’s ability for competitive improvements. She/he has to blend different sets of competences to navigate the organization in the right direction [3]. Therefore, e-commerce management as a controversial issue has attracted a lot of attention in all countries worldwide [15] and brings universities the huge responsibility of satisfying the demand of labor market and industry to cultivate those who entering the workforce and those from the existing workforce with the needed e-skills [15]. As a matter of fact, an e-commerce manager is not just a programmer, a marketer, or a web developer, but she/ he is the one who has sufficient knowledge about each of those functions as well as managing the employees who those careers belong to them. The e-commerce manager have to well understand the IT tasks and responsibilities, web site creation, and marketing sectors, interacting between different departments to facilitate web site creation and promote successful e-commerce dimension of their business [16]. This article has been written in seven sections. The first part outlines the managerial e-competences and skills, which are highly demanded by e-commerce workplaces today. In the next section, the most influential managerial characteristics that make differentiation between traditional management programs and e-commerce needs will be debated. In the third part, previous and recent academic approaches toward the fulfillment of e-commerce needs and career space is going to discuss. Forth section includes some Today Need of e-Commerce Management to e-Skill Trainings Rashad Yazdanifard and Adnis Zargar 52 International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2012