Defining the essential purpose, importance, functions and managerial concepts to a manager
Albrenny Leslie,
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Defining the essential purpose, importance, functions and managerial concepts to a manager
Abstract
This paper explores six aspects of managing, such as, who are managers, manager’s tasks, what makes a good manager, universality of management concepts, importance of ethics and managing change. The first aspect shines a light on the definition of who are managers. Warren Bennis says “leaders do the right thing and managers do things right”. Followed by the second aspect, what do managers do, five tasks are listed and explained. In the third aspect, suggestions to what makes a good manager are explained as well as examples of essential roles played out that contribute to making a good manager. The fourth, covers the explanation of the Universality of Management Concepts which refers to the ability to transfer a manager’s principle, techniques, functions and skills from one time, place or job to another . Fifth aspect enlightens on the reasons to why ethics is important to managers as well as how it should be practice rightfully. Lastly, the sixth aspect elaborates on helpful guidance towards managing change in a company or organization.
Defying the essential purpose, importance, functions and managerial concepts to a manager
The universality of management concepts refers to the transferability of its principle, techniques, functions and skills from one time, place or job to another ( the Q & A wiki). In other words, a manger who is successful in a given field, organization or company should be easily adaptable towards being successful in the other. A manager being able to portray the skills of portability can be profitable to the company. As long as his or her skills are productively applied to
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