The Importance of Interpersonal Skills Hafizhah Chandra The Importance of Interpersonal Skills Hafizhah Chandra Management 16 Management 16 08 Fall 08 Fall Early theorists such as Henri Fayol (1841 – 1925) described managerial role as planning‚ organizing‚ commanding‚ coordinating and controlling. In the early part of 20th century‚ his theory did help managers to manage more effectively (Mind Tools Ltd‚ 1996 – 2013). However‚ Fayol might have overlooked
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Managers fulfil many different roles every day‚ for instance when leading a team a manager may have to resolve conflicts‚ negotiate new contracts or representing the department at a board meeting. Put simply a manager is constantly switching roles as tasks‚ situations‚ and expectations change. The Managerial Roles Approach which is one of the newer approaches to management analysis has been popularised by management expert and professor Henry Mintzberg. Mintzberg. He has given this approach 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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2.1 Ten managerial roles as identified by Mintzberg Managerial roles define behaviors and traits certain managers possess. Henry Mintzberg identified ten managerial roles. Henry Mintzberg developed a thesis based on his research about the nature of managerial work analyzing the actual work habits and time management of CEOs. In his research‚ he had come up with the identification of the following 10 separate roles in managerial work: The first managerial role is a figurehead. A figurehead is
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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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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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Fayol and Mintzberg The aim of this project is to highlight what management is all about. Management is a vague term which many theorists have different interpretation. It has become an important part of our society and also in our daily activities. Based on my research‚ management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through people. In this essay‚ I will be comparing and contrasting the views of management with two profound theorists‚ Fayol and Mintzberg
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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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Interpersonal Role of Management (a) Figurehead: It means symbolic-head. His activities include ceremony‚ status requests and solicitations. (b) Leader: It means‚ responsible for motivating and activating the subordinates. His activities include responsibility for staffing‚ training‚ subordinate’s team building‚ etc. (c) Liason: It means‚ maintaining a self-developed network of outside contact and information. His activities include
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Is the work of modern day management still comparable to the ideas‚ and structures created by management theorists of the past? Management functions‚ roles‚ and skills‚ have been labelled as the three distinctive categories to aid the job description of managers (Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg & Coulter‚ 2006). The purpose of this essay is to identify the work that is required from a manager of today‚ and evaluate the comparisons with the characterisations created by past management researchers‚ and their
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