Explane Mintzberg’s managerial rules
Mintzberg defined 10 management roles in 3 categories, each of which embraces different roles: interpersonal, informational and decisional. * Interpersonal roles include: Figurehead, Leader, and Liason. * Informational roles include: mentor, disseminator, and spokesman. * Decisional roles include: entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator
* decisional
Having the power or authority to make decisions. * Informational
Designed or able to impart information. * interpersonal
Between two or more people.
Mintzberg's Management Roles
Management is incorporated into every aspect of an organization, with different roles and responsibilities. Henry Mintzberg (1973), the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University, defined ten management roles within three categories:interpersonal, informational, and decisional.
Each of the three categories embraces the different roles (from Table 1 of source 1).
Interpersonal
1. Figurehead: symbolic head, obliged to perform a number of routine duties of a legal or social nature. 2. Leader: responsible for the motivation and activation of subordinates; responsible for staffing, training, and associated duties. 3. Liaison: maintain self-developed network of outside contacts and informers who provide favors and information.
Informational
1. Mentor: seeks and receives wide variety of special information (much of it current) to develop thorough understanding of organization and environment; emerges as nerve center of internal and external information of the organization. 2. Disseminator: transmits information received from outsiders or from other subordinates to members of the organization; some information factual, some involving interpretation and integration of diverse value positions of organizational influences. 3. Spokesman: transmits information (plans, policies, results,