Managerial Roles and Skills 1.5
Managerial Roles and Skills 1.5
Managerial Roles and Skills 1.5
MANAGER
A Manager is responsible
for planning and directing
the work of group of
individuals, monitoring
their performance and
taking corrective action
when necessary for the
accomplishment of
organizational goals and
objectives.
Who Are
Managers?
Someone who works with and
through other people by
coordinating their work activities in
order to accomplish organizational
goals
Managerial Levels
Top
Managers
Middle
Managers
First-Line
Managers
Types of Managers
First-line Managers
Are at the lowest level of management and manage the
work of non-managerial employees
Middle Managers
Manage the work of first-line managers
Top Managers
Are responsible for making organization-wide
decisions and establishing plans and goals that affect
the entire organization
Where Managers
Organization
Work
A consciously coordinated social unit,
composed of two or more people, that
functions on a relatively continuous
basis to achieve a common goal or set
of goals.
Managerial Concerns
Efficiency
“Doing things right”
Getting the most output for the least
input.
Effectiveness
“Doing the right things”
Attaining organizational goals.
What Managers Do ?
Manager (or Administrator)
Individual who achieve goals through and with
other people.
Managerial Activities
•Make decisions
•Allocate resources
•Direct activities of others to
attain goals
American social and organizational
psychologist........ Robert Katz
Technical Skills
Top
Conceptual
Managers
Skills
Technical
Lower-level
Skills
Managers
Importance
MANAGEMENT
SKILLS
• Planning
•Communication.
•Decision making.
•Delegation.
•Problem solving.
•Motivating.
Mintzberg’s Management Roles
Approach
Interpersonal roles
Figurehead, leader, liaison
Informational roles
Monitor, disseminator, spokesperson
Decisional roles
Entrepreneur, disturbance handler,