By: Joy Cirunay-Mangubat, Ph.D.
An effective and efficient manager must always remember the three (3) roles in which he should play. One of which is Interpersonal. As a manager, he is a figurehead, a leader and a liaison. He always set good example because everybody look up him with great expectations and you cannot allow disappointment. It is in this role that being a manager you must see to it that employees welfare will be given attention because through proper management he can ensure 100% cooperation, participation and even 100% good performance and high production. Another role that is essential is Informative. Monitoring is very important among the members of the organization. As a manager, he should be very sensitive in the sense that if ever he receives variety of feedbacks, information within and outside the organization he must know how to handle may it be negative or positive for the development and understanding of the organizational. It is his direct obligation as a manager to know what is happening in the organization and the whole world as well. He must keep on knowing what is new in the environment through reading and to ensure that his people are doing well is to maintain personal contact and by listening their side. He must be a disseminator. It is his role to call meetings for whatever decision he needs to make for the organization. He see to it that information will be understood by the members. Being a leader, transparency is very important. The last role under the Informational is a spokesperson. A manager must not be secretive, instead, people oriented, open, knows how to transmit information to the outsiders in the organization , plan policies, actions, results and many more. He must have a good public relation to all stakeholders so that in one way or another they can help him achieve the vision, mission, goals and