activities to achieve desired outcomes. A manager is someone who works with and through other people by co-ordinating their work activities to accomplish organisational goals. (Robbins‚ Stagg‚ Coulter‚ 2003‚ p.10) This definition states‚ the fundamental responsibility of a manager‚ is to accomplish the organisations objectives by ’getting things done through people’. There are however several ways of conceiving managerial responsibilities‚ as a ’manager’ can be viewed from many different positions
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management literature. There is a close connection between leadership and power. People follow leaders because they have power and people will follow them‚ the leaders get the power to lead. French and Raven (1959) identified that the power bases that managers can use are aimed to influence employees which include two types of personal power: expert power (respect accorded because of knowledge or skill and referent power (personal identification with and desire to emulate the leader). Three types of position
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Throughout the essay‚ the managers will be referred to as Mr X and Mr Y and their company’s will be referred to as Company X and Company Y respectively due to confidential reasons. The first manager that was interviewed in order to fulfil this task was Mr X. He works for Company X‚ which is‚ a large service based organisation at the position of ‘Head of Corporate Credit Administration.’ His key responsibility at this bank is to provide credit administration support to Corporate‚ Investment
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systems. From an operational standpoint‚ the majority of IT manager responsibilities involve testing the integrity and performance of various information networks and software applications. Of course‚ since technology tends to evolve rather quickly‚ the IT manager must also periodically review and evaluate how current systems and applications are meeting the needs of the company or organization. This means that a successful IT manager should be able to identify and implement new technologies to
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The top reason why people decide to leave their jobs are because of ineffective managers. Managing people can be a complex and intimidating task‚ especially for the inexperienced. Keeping a workforce motivated and engaged requires careful planning‚ and consideration. Being an effective manager is about supporting‚ coaching‚ directing and engaging employees. Effective management is the key to retaining good employees long-term‚ which not only make a business run more smoothly‚ but also cuts costs
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The manager interviewed is a middle manager involved in Australia’s largest and longest running not for profit children’s organisation. The organisation is structured in a traditional way with clear divisions and set job positions (Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg and Coulter‚ 2008). The manager is responsible for the operation of twenty two children’s services as well as the management of the twenty two directors and one hundred and sixty staff involved in these children’s services. The manager is responsible
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communities. They provide much required services to those in needs and derive from the humanitarian‚ religious‚ healthcare‚ social service‚ educational‚ or environmental sector. While striving for organizational success‚ non-profit organizations are faced with many obstacles. A non-profit organization often faces a number of issues in the different phases of its growth. Some of these are: Lack of proper management‚ Lack of resources‚ superimposed chargers‚ problems in fund raising‚ newly imposed legal
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material resources to the organization. Managers are required to do planning‚ organizing‚ commanding‚ coordinating and controlling. Fayol’s theory of a management function which is the POCCC allows the organization to have more effective and efficient in goods and services than other competitors. The dynamic and complex work of a manager is based on interpersonal‚ informational and decisional roles. Given the above roles according to Henry Mintzberg‚ the managers are placed in different areas to perform
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WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER IN A CONTRACT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (CRO)? Kim M. Boericke Senior Director‚ Global Project Management inc Research Abstract: In the clinical research setting‚ a project is a unique clinical trial. Within a contract research organization (CRO)‚ a project manager is the: Project team leader‚ primary point of contact for the team and the client‚ client advocate within the CRO‚ manager of project change‚ and internal business development representative
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The operations management functions‚like in other management disciplines‚ include planning‚directing‚organizing‚staffing‚motivating and controlling to achieve the set organizational goals. In addition to the above management functions operation managers perform many other activities as given below. 1. Facility location and lay out design-The facility location activity involves the decision of the location for the facility‚manufacturing unit or service outfit‚geographically.The layout design
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