Thursday, August 30, 2012

Roles of managers

A manager is a person who achieves goals through other people. Basically a manager has three roles: Interpersonal roles, Informational roles and Decisional roles. Interpersonal roles are such roles that require a person's skill to interact with others( like figurehead, leader, liaison). Informational roles are roles requiring a manger to collect information both from inside and outside the organization and take action( like monitor, disseminator, spokesperson). Decisional roles are such roles that require a manager to be a good leader and make decisions under certain circumstances( like entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, negotiator).

A manager must perform 4 important steps:
1. Planning - Process through which goals are defined, strategies established and plans developed.
2. Organizing - Determining what tasks are to be done ad who is to do them
3. Leading - Includes motivating employees, directing  others and selecting best communication channels
4. Controlling - Seeing weather plans made are being accomplished or not and taking corrective action.

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