Introduction
Manager, the person who makes decision and design the organisation’s goals, based on their manager’s level, according to Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, and Coulter (2012). The main purpose of this essay is to identify the reason why we need to have managers in organisations. Based on the research below, we can clearly see that there is a need to have managers in operating and managing an organisation. For example, first- line, middle, and top managers perform different functions of management by using several skills and roles to implement the organisation’s activities. Besides, they apply different skills, functions, and roles to manage the organisation. In order to prove the skills, functions, and roles used by managers to perform
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However, the concept of Fayol’s five functions (as cite in Carroll and Gillen, 1987), are no longer use to us. So, the framework was set as planning, organising, leading, and controlling in the mid-1950.
Planning- Identify the goals, initiate the strategy and develop the plans to achieve the objectives even the alternative.
Organising- Arrange structures that should finished by workers to achieve organisation’s goals.
Leading- Work with people and lead to the direction of the organisation’s objective.
Controlling- Monitoring, comparing, and correcting work performance. Mintzberg (1971) illustrated 10 managers’ role in a (an) organisation/company. 10 roles were separated into three categories. Interpersonal—figure head, leader, and liaison, dealing with behaviours. Three roles relate to the manager 's behaviour that focuses on interpersonal contact. These roles derive directly from the authority and statistic associated with holding managerial office, (Mintzberg, 1971). Information—monitor, disseminator, and spokesman, processing activities (receiving, collecting, and disseminating) performed by a manager. A second set of managerial activities relates primarily to the processing of information, (Mintzberg, 1971). Decisional—entrepreneur, disturbance handle, resource allocate, and negotiator include decision-making of
Asforthe word ‘management’, there has been long debate about its meaning. For our purpose, we take the perspective of the functions that managers
“Organizational Management and Leadership” defines planning as “the development of goals, which leads to the development of an overall strategy for achieving those goals. Planning can be performed at all levels of an organization. Supervisors are planning when a weekly work schedule is put together for hourly staff. Top executives are planning when they define the mission statement of the company and determine how the organization can maintain its competitive advantage.”
Planning consists of competitive moves and business approaches developed to attract, please customers, conduct operations, grow the business, gain competitive advantage, and achieve performance objectives (Huidan, 2011). There are three steps to planning. A manager must be able to decide what goals to pursue, the best strategy to achieve those goals, and how to use their available resources to achieve those goals as efficient as possible (Bethel University,
Managers are integral to the success of an organization because they are responsible for using both human and other resources to achieve goals effectively and efficiently. (Satterlee, 2013). This paper combines the three concepts that Group 4 have considered most important. It primarily highlights the four functions of management; planning, leading, organizing, and controlling. Secondly, it discusses the characteristics of a successful manager. Finally, relates the necessary skills for a competent manager; technical skills, human skills, and conceptual skills.
Organizations have many types of employees. Some employees work on work on specific tasks and are not accountable for anyone but themselves. The work, they do is supervised by a manager, who is overseen by another supervisor or manager and this continues on until one reaches the top level of management. A manager in an organization is a supervisor who oversees and directs the work of their employees in the organization. The three core levels of management include, but are not limited to top level management, middle management, and first level management (Daft, 2014). This essay will cover the different types of management positions that each type of manager holds, and accountabilities of each level of management.
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Managers perform many functions and play many roles. They are responsible for handling many situations and these situations are usually different from one another.
Planning is defined as choosing a goal and developing a strategy to attain that goal.
Manager is a person who is responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or an organization. He or she is responsible for controlling the activities, business dealings, tasks for the employee and more. Being a manager is not an easy job. They have responsibilities like Staffing, creating jobs; reviewing resumes and applications, interviewing new candidates, hiring, and firing. They are responsible for communicating with employees to discuss about the company’s mission and goals and how the results are achieved. They will have to train new employees and be able to evaluate the employee’s progress. A manager 's prime responsibility is to the success of the company. His actions should all be poised toward business growth. Companies hire managers to run daily operations, coach employees, maintain quality control and ensure that its products and services are fulfilling customer needs. Managers must constantly review the company 's financial, budgetary and production goals. In between all these responsibilities, managers do often have difficulty in motivating employees. This has been increased a lot in recent times compared to the 50 years ago. Some of the common challenges that managers face in motivating employees are workforce diversity, organizational restructuring, Dealing with entry level employees.
The aim of this essay is to investigate whether the work and skills of a manager are the same regardless of the level of their position within the organization. Through research conducted into three main theorists namely Henri Fayol, Henry Mintzberg and Robert L. Katz it is concluded that the core work functions a manager does are the same irrespective of position. The work roles in which a manager occupies within the organization are dependent upon the organization and their position within the organization. The skills that are needed by managers are universal to all managers but the composition of these skills is largely dependent upon the manager's position.
Leadership and management are two opposing styles of employee supervision actively used with in the organization. It has lots of similarities, yet there are many differences that separate a manager from a leader. Bateman and Snell, 2008 stated that “Management is the process of working with people and resources, to accomplish organizational goal” (p19). Leadership is a manner in which a leader aspires to persuade his or her team to launch and achieve organizational goal. This paper will discuss the difference between management and leadership, the roles
This paper will start off by comparing, and contrasting the role of the manager and a
The world of business has undergone radical and dramatic changes in the last decade changes that present extraordinary challenges for the contemporary manager. A manager is an organizational member who is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities of the organization so that the goals can be achieved. According to a widely referenced study by Henry Mintzberg, managers serve three primary roles: interpersonal, informational, and decision-making. Management is process of administrating and coordinating resources effectively and efficiently in an effort to achieve the goals of the organization.
A professional workplace is an environment that produces numerous challenging situations and if not handled correctly, could create a very unproductive organization. A well-qualified employee is selected to be responsible for controlling all or part of a company, including difficult situations that arise between co-workers. The term given to this worker is a manager; their main task in the organization is to get things done through the efforts of other people. This may sound like a rather simple task, but it is very deep and layered with different difficulties. Henry Mintzberg, an internationally renowned author on business and management, broke down the tasks a manager faces into ten different interrelated roles. According to Mintzberg’s managerial roles, there are three categories that break up the ten roles a manager performs: Interpersonal, Informational, and Decisional. Interpersonal encompasses figurehead, leader, and liaison. Informational includes monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. Finally, Decisional covers entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator. It is clear that being a manager is a demanding job and it is not for the easily overwhelmed individual.
The paper will explore different theories of Management, include Henri Fayol and Henry Mintzberg. This section of this paper provides an overview of functions, roles and skills required of a manager. What is Management? Management can define as the process of reaching organisational goals by working with and through people and other organisational resources. (Management Innovation, 2008).