management
Roczniki Akademii Rolniczej w Poznaniu – CCCLXXXV (2007)
KATARZYNA CIEŚLIŃSKA
THE BASIC ROLES OF MANAGER IN BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION
From Department of Economics of August Cieszkowski Agricultural University of Poznań
ABSTRACT. The subject of the study is the presentation and analysis of manager’s role as the key person in the business organization. Beginning with defining the term “manager”, the author present the particular typologies of managerial roles, that takes into consideration different criteria. In the paper points out the conditions of managerial roles and probably the most important the leader’s role.
Key words: manager, leader, supervisor, managerial roles, management
Introduction
Managers are the community that visibly stands apart in present-day business organization, although heterogeneous and difficult to unequivocal defining. The reasons for this phenomenon are concerned with the process of ownership and management’s separation, therefore with so called “managerial revolution”. The subject of the presented study is an attempt of defining term “manager” with its typology and presentation of managerial roles in the nowadays business organization.
Notion of manager
The notion of manager is fairly indefinite. This issue is very expanded in economic and organization and management sciences. Tremendous heterogeneity of administration personnel is the reason that there is no, universal and commonly accepted definition in the literature on this subject. In the business encyclopedia, manager is on described as a person, who fulfills the primordial managerial functions (planning, organizing, motivating and controlling) and is the superior of given human team (Encyklopedia biznesu
Rocz. AR Pozn. CCCLXXXV, Ekon. 6: 3-12
© Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej im. Augusta Cieszkowskiego w Poznaniu, Poznań 2007
PL ISSN 1731-0261
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K. Cieślińska
1995). Whereas R.W. Griffin defines manager as a person who first of all is
KATARZYNA CIEŚLIŃSKA
THE BASIC ROLES OF MANAGER IN BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION
From Department of Economics of August Cieszkowski Agricultural University of Poznań
ABSTRACT. The subject of the study is the presentation and analysis of manager’s role as the key person in the business organization. Beginning with defining the term “manager”, the author present the particular typologies of managerial roles, that takes into consideration different criteria. In the paper points out the conditions of managerial roles and probably the most important the leader’s role.
Key words: manager, leader, supervisor, managerial roles, management
Introduction
Managers are the community that visibly stands apart in present-day business organization, although heterogeneous and difficult to unequivocal defining. The reasons for this phenomenon are concerned with the process of ownership and management’s separation, therefore with so called “managerial revolution”. The subject of the presented study is an attempt of defining term “manager” with its typology and presentation of managerial roles in the nowadays business organization.
Notion of manager
The notion of manager is fairly indefinite. This issue is very expanded in economic and organization and management sciences. Tremendous heterogeneity of administration personnel is the reason that there is no, universal and commonly accepted definition in the literature on this subject. In the business encyclopedia, manager is on described as a person, who fulfills the primordial managerial functions (planning, organizing, motivating and controlling) and is the superior of given human team (Encyklopedia biznesu
Rocz. AR Pozn. CCCLXXXV, Ekon. 6: 3-12
© Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej im. Augusta Cieszkowskiego w Poznaniu, Poznań 2007
PL ISSN 1731-0261
4
K. Cieślińska
1995). Whereas R.W. Griffin defines manager as a person who first of all is