Managerial Roles Managers must wear many different hats in formulating and implementing task activities related to their positions. In an attempt to understand the diversity of hats managers must wear‚ Henry Mintzberg examined managerial activities on a daily basis. His study enabled him to identify ten different but‚ coordinated sets of behavior‚ or roles‚ that manager assume. These ten roles can be separated into three general groupings: interpersonal roles‚ informational roles‚ and decisional
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Henry Mintzberg’s 10 Managerial Roles INTERPERSONAL CATEGORY 5. Disseminator - This is where you communicate potentially useful information to your colleagues and your team. Ex: Send memos and reports; inform staffers and subordinates of decisions. 6. Spokesperson - Managers represent and speak for their organization. In this role you’re responsible for transmitting information about your organization and its goals to the people outside it. Ex: Pass on memos‚ reports and informational
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MANAGERIAL ROLE: 1. INTERPERSONAL ROLES (i). Figurehead role- In this role a manager performs symbolic duties required by the status of his office. Making speeches‚ bestowing honors‚ welcoming official visitors‚ distributing gifts to retiring employees are examples of such ceremonial duties (ii). Leader- This role defines the manager’s relationship with his own subordinates. The manager sets an example :legitimizes the power of subordinates and brings their needs in accord with those of his
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Q I. Write a note on the managerial roles and skills? [10] Mangerial Roles and Skills Mangerial Roles: To meet the many demands of performing their functions‚ managers assume multiple roles. A role is an organized set of behaviors. Henry Mintzberg (1973) has identified ten Sub roles common to the work of all managers. The ten roles are divided into three groups: interpersonal‚ informational‚ and decisional. According to Henry Mintzberg(1973)‚ managers in an organization‚ in order to be effective
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even he has to manage the external atmosphere at and around the organisation to run the organisation in an admirable path and their by achieving the predetermined goals. Here I would like to present the manager’s job in an organisation with an example of an interview and with my research work. I took an interview from a manager of software Solutions Company a small scale information technology based company in Australia. while interviewing him we come across some of the important qualities of a
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MINTZBERG ASSIGNMENT ON THE ROLES OF A MANAGER BY January‚ 2014 Henry Mintzberg described managerial work as consisting of 10 roles classified into 3 roles: (a) interpersonal roles including the figurehead‚ leader‚ and liaison roles; (b) informational roles including the monitor‚ disseminator‚ and spokesman roles; and (c) decisional roles including the entrepreneur‚ disturbance handler‚ resource allocator‚ and negotiator roles. H. Mintzberg(1973) states that “formal authority gives
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Henry Mintzberg Born 1939; educator Education: McGill University; MIT. Career: Worked for Canadian National Railways 1961-1963; later he was visiting professor at a number of universities and business schools; President of Strategic Management Society 1988-91; consultant to a large number of organizations; visiting professor at INSEAD; director of the Center for Strategy Studies in Organizations at McGill University; professor at McGill The work of Canadian Henry Mintzberg counters much
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understanding of the concept will enable us to become more effective in that role (Bartol‚ Martin‚ Tein & Matthews‚ 1995‚ p.13). Throughout the development of management‚ there are classical theory of management and modern management theory. As categorized by a French industrialist‚ Henry Fayol‚ the classic management portrays 4 functions known as POLC: Planning‚ Organizing‚ Leading‚ and Controlling. However‚ in the late 1960’s‚ Henry Mintzberg undertook a careful study of 5 executives to determine what these
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manager. Therefore‚ through varied approaches‚ many different views about management has been appearing such as Fayol’s function theory (1949) which based on his owe managing experience and Mintzberg’s 10 roles theory (1973) which came from observing five chief-executive officers. Furthermore‚ Mintzberg regarded Fayol’s theory as “folklore”. It seems that Fayol’s theory has been made redundant by Mintzberg’s study. The purpose of this paper‚ however‚ is to present that Fayol’s administrative theory
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will allow us to make better-prepared managers? In this article Mintzberg sets out to find an answer as to what managers do‚ he studied all kinds of managers and leaders from different types of industries even going as far as looking at gang leaders. In studying the different managers Mintzberg is also able to defunct the fours myths about a manager’s job. The first myth describes the manager
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