MANAGEMENT

DEFINITION:
A Manager is the person responsible for planning and directing
the work of a group of individuals, monitoring their work, and
taking corrective action when necessary. For many people, this
is their first step into a management career.

OR
A person responsible for controlling or administering
an organization or group of staff.

As an example, a restaurant will often have a front-of-house manager who helps the
patrons, and supervises the hosts; or a specific office project can have a manager, known
simply as the project manager. Certain departments within a company designate their
managers to be line managers, while others are known as staff managers, depending upon
the function of the department
Simply speaking management is WHAT MANAGERS DO. Were the term
management means MANNERS. Manners to conduct, manners to manage, manners to
administrate. Now what to manage, what to conduct, what to what to administrate, naturally
ORGNIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES OR OPERATIONS. Now question is How. Its simple answer
is:
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By performing managerial functions

By using managerial skills
By playing managerial roles
By coordinating organizational resources

Who is MANAGER? Manager is someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other
people so that organizational activities can accomplished.
A managers job not about personal achievement-------it is about help others do their work.

ROLES OF MANAGERS
Following are the roles of the managers
DECISIONAL ROLE:

Entrepreneur: Searches organization and its environment for

opportunities and initiates improvement project to bring about change;
supervises design of certain projects.

Disturbance Handler: Responsible for corrective action when

organization faces unexpected disturbance.

Resource Allocation: Responsible for the allocation of resources all

kind.

Negotiator: Responsible for representing the organization at major

negotiations.

INTERPERSONAL

Figure head: Symbolic head; obliged to perform a number of routine duties

of a legal or social nature,

Leader: Responsible for the hiring, motivating, training, and disciplining of

employees.

Liaison: Attending meetings inside & outside the firm obtains information.
(Managers meeting with internal members of other units. Or meeting with trade
association outside the organization.)

INFORMATION ROLE:

Monitor: Seeks and receiving the information from inside or outside to use it as
opportunity by developing thorough understanding of organizing and environment.

Disseminator: Transmit information to members of organization

Spokesperson: holding board meetings, giving information to media or other

outside about organizations status.