LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

Functions, Roles, and Skills of a Manager
Name of Learner: ____________________________________
Grade Level: 11__________________________________
Strand/Track: ABM Academic_______________________
Section: ____________________________________
Date: ____________________________________

A. Background Information for Learners

The lesson is about the functions, roles and skills of a manager. Base on the most
essential learning competency, it involves the activities which can help the students
master the assigned competency

B. Learning Competency with code

*Explain the functions, roles and skills of a manager

C. Directions/ Instructions

After going through with this lesson, you are expected to:

1. Use the Learning Activity Sheets with care.

2. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the activities.
4. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Check your answers with honesty and integrity.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Ask questions to your teachers for clarification through messenger or text.
7. Return this Learning Activity Sheets complete and on time.

D. Exercises / Activities

D1. INTRODUCTION

a. What I need to know

After going through with this lesson, you are expected to:
1. Explain the functions, roles and skills of a manager

b. What’s New?
Activity 1: “Guess the Logo”

Directions: Guess the name of the logo and write your answer in the space provided
below each picture.

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Article: “The Game of Chess”
What
6 does the chess game look like in action? When I visited Michelle Miller, the manager
who opened Walgreens’ 4,000th store, I found the wall of her back office papered with work
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schedules. Michelle’s store in Redondo Beach, California, employs people with sharply
different skills and potentially disruptive differences in personality. A critical part of her job,

therefore, is to put people into roles and shifts that will allow them to shine—and to avoid
putting clashing personalities together. At the same time, she needs to find ways for individuals
to grow.
There’s Jeffrey, for example, a “goth rocker” whose hair is shaved on one side and
long enough on the other side to cover his face.
Give Jeffrey a generic task, and he would struggle. Give him one that forced him to be
accurate and analytical, and he would excel. This, Michelle concluded, was Jeffrey’s
forte. So, as any good manager would do, she told him what she had deduced about
him and praised him for his good work.
And a good manager would have left it at that. But Michelle knew she could get
more out Jeffrey. So, she devised a scheme to reassign responsibilities across
the entire store to capitalize on his unique strengths. In every Walgreens, there is
a responsibility called “resets and revisions.” A reset involves stocking an aisle
with new merchandise, a task that usually coincides with a predictable change in
customer buying patterns (at the end of summer, for example, the stores will
replace sun creams and lip balms with allergy medicines). A manager’s most
precious resource is time, and great managers know that the most effective way
to invest their time is to identify exactly how each employee is different and then

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 to figure out how best to incorporate those enduring peculiarities into the overall
plan.
To excel at managing others, you must bring that insight to your actions and
interactions. Always remember that great managing is about release, not
transformation. It’s about constantly tweaking your environment so that the
unique contribution, the unique needs, and the unique style of each employee
can be given free rein. Your success as a manager will depend almost entirely
on your ability to do this.

D. 2 DEVELOPMENT
a. What I know?
Activity 2: “Manager’s Hat”
Directions: Fill in each hat with skills, functions, and role of a manager.

b. What’s In?

Read the Infographics

Did you know?

DIRECTING

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 Did you know?

c. What is it?

Directions: Refer on the given lecture entitled “Functions, roles and skills of a Manager”
to have a better understanding about the topic. For additional information, you can visit
our google classroom for other resources for Organization and Management or you may
use and read the book entitled Organization and Management by Cabrera, Altajeros and
Benjamin found on pages 9-11.

Review Questions:
1. How do organizations classify managers according to their functions? Describe the
respective functions of each of manager.
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2. Among the different types of managers discussed in this lesson, which type of
managers are more aware of their organization’s problems. Explain your answer.
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 3. Enumerate the three classifications of managerial roles suggested by Mintzberg.
Are they equal importance?
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D. 3 ENGAGEMENT
a. What is more?
Activity 3: “Rhymeanager”

Directions: Create a poem using the word “Manager”

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b. What I can do?

Activity 4: “Work in Progress”

Directions: After you have filled in the graphic organizer chart, please work on the
WORK IN PROGRESS.
List down the family members and identify each role. Explain their duties and
responsibilities in a blank sheet of paper.

Family Members Roles Duties and Responsibilities

Activity 5: “Case study analysis”

Directions: Read the content of the case and answer the question given below.

Laura is the associate director of a nonprofit agency that provides assistance to

children and families. She is the head of a department that focuses on evaluating
the skill-building programs the agency provides to families. She reports directly to
the agency leadership. As a whole, the agency has been cautious in hiring this year
because of increased competition for federal grant funding. However, they have also
suffered high staff turnover. Two directors, three key research staff, and one staff

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 person from the finance department have left. She has a demanding schedule that
requires frequent travel; however, she supervises two managers who in turn are
responsible for five staff members each. Both managers have been appointed within
the last six months.

Manager 1: Kelly has a specific background in research. She manages staff who
provide research support to another department that delivers behavioral health
services to youth. Kelly supports her staff and is very organized; however, she often
takes a very black and white view of issues. Upper level leadership values Kelly’s
latest research on the therapeutic division’s services. Kelly is very motivated and
driven and expects the same from her staff.

Manager 2: Linda has a strong background in social science research and

evaluation. She manages staff that work on different projects within the agency. She
is known as a problem solver and is extremely supportive of her staff. She is very
organized and has a wealth of experience in evaluation of family services. Linda is
very capable and can sometimes take on too much.

The managers are sensing that staff are becoming overworked as everyone takes
on increased responsibilities due to high staff turnover. Staff have also mentioned
that Laura’s "glass half-empty" conversation style leaves them feeling dejected. In
addition, Laura has not shared budgets with her managers, so they are having
difficulty appropriately allocating work to staff. Laura said she has not received
sufficient information from the finance department to complete the budgets. The
finance department said they have sent her all the information they have available.
As staff become distressed, the managers are becoming frustrated. They feel like
they are unable to advocate for their staff or solve problems without key information
like the departmental budget.

How can Laura most effectively use both management and leadership skills in her
role as associate director? What combination of the two do you think would work
best in this setting?
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c. What other enrichment activities can I engage in?

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 Activity 7: “Poster Making”
Directions: Create a poster that explains the functions, roles and skills of a
manager. You can use any form of board that is available at home.

D.4 ASSIMILATION
a. What I have Learned?
Activity 8: “Logic”
Directions: In the table below, write down at least five (5) skills you have learned and
explain how those skills help you to manage an organization.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

b. Assessment

Activity 9: “Something to do”

I-Multiple Choice: Directions: Choose the letter corresponding to the correct answer
for each of the questions provided below. Write the letter in the space
provided before the number.
_____1. The ability to think and to conceptualize about abstract and complex
situations.
a. Technical Skills
b. Human Skills
c. Conceptual skill
d. Inter-relationship skills

_____2. This is where you communicate potentially useful information to your

colleagues and your team.

a. Monitor
b. Disseminator
c. Spokesperson
d. Negotiator

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 _____3. As a manager, you create and control change within the organization.
This means solving problems, generating new ideas, and implementing them.
a. Technical Skills
b. Human Skills
c. Conceptual skill
d. None of the above
_____4. One who has nominal leadership but without real power, as this power is
possessed only by the company’s President or Owner.
a. Leader
b. Liaison
c. Figurehead
d. Spokesperson
_____5. One who is capable of maintaining unity of action in the organization.
a. Leader
b. Liaison
c. Figurehead
d. Spokesperson
_____6. Which of the following is not a classification of an informational managerial
role?
a. Spokesperson
b. Disseminator
c. Figurehead
d. None of the above
_____7. One who speak in the name and behalf of another; as in behalf of the
company President/ Owner.
a. Leader
b. Liaison
c. Figurehead
d. Spokesperson
_____8. The following are the managerial skill that must be possessed by a manager
Except:
a. Human
b. Conceptual
c. Technical
d. None of the above
_____9. An individual engaged in management activities.
a. President

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 b. Manager
c. Leader
d. None of the above
_____10. Who conducted a research on what real managers do?
A. Fayol
b. McGregor
c. Mintzberg
d. None of the above

II-Directions: In the pyramid organizational chart fill in the managerial levels and
write its respective managers

E. Guide Questions (if necessary)

Activity 11: “To that point”

Directions: Respond to the following guide questions

1. Have a managerial functions remained the same through time? Why do you
say so?
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2. Why is it important to understand the functions, roles and skills of a manager?

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F. Rubric for scoring (if necessary)

Case Study

Exemplary Very Good Good Fair Poor

(10-8 points) (7-6 points) (5-4 points) (3-1 points) (0 points)
The answer The answer The answer The answer No essay
contains a contains a contains a contains a at all.
very rich rich substantial minimal
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the topic. of the topic. the topic. of the topic.
Short Response

10-8 7-6 5-1 0

The sentences The sentences The sentences no answer
reflect in-depth reflect deep reflect low
meaning of the meaning of the meaning of the
word and with word and with word and with
highly organized organized highly
sentences. sentences disorganized
sentences.

Poster

Not Done or
Excellent Good Fair
Criteria Incomplete
5 points 4 points 3 points
0 points
Submitted the Submitted Submitted the Was not able
poster before poster after poster late (5 to finish the
Prompt
deadline or deadline (1 days after or poster
on time day after) onwards)
Poster is Poster is The poster is Poster is not
exceptionally attractive, poorly attractive at
Visual Impact attractive in though a little designed and all.
terms of color bit messy. lacks
and neatness. neatness.
All works are Almost all Words are No labels
Labels clearly written items are very hard to
clear read
There are no There are There are It is full of
spelling very few many spelling spelling
Spelling
mistakes in spelling errors. errors.
the poster. errors.
Total

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 Poetry Writing Rubric “Rhymeanager”

Excellent Average Poor

(5 points) (3 points) (1 point)
Cohesivenes The poem goes The poem somewhat The poem does
s perfectly together, the goes together but not go together.
unity between lines needs more The poems lines
and stanzas, which cohesiveness, the and stanzas away
connect with the topic poem’s lines and from the topic.
stanzas sometimes
sway from the topic
Rhythm The poem uses The poem sometimes The poem doe not
rhythm throughout, uses rhythm but may have any
which benefits the waver in a way that noticeable
poetic tone. distracts the reader rhythm.
and negatively
affects the tone
Creativity Use the right words The words are not Cannot be
for the content. clear understandable

G. Reflection

Learners will write on their notebook or journal their insights about the lesson.

I understand that ____________________________________.

I realized that _______________________________________.

H. References for learners

Books

Cabrera-Helena Ma. F., Altajeros-Anthony DC. And Baenjamin-Riaz. Organization

and Management: Department of Education, Philippines

Payos- Ranulfo P., Espinosa-Ernesto G., Zorilla-Orlando S. Organization and

Management: Rex Bookstore

Electronic Sources

https://hbr.org/2005/03/what-great-managers-do

https://www.google.com/search?q=infographics+
+theoris+MANAGEMENT&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwioy5Wn96PrAhW1zIsBHVpZDNsQ2-
cCegQIABAA&oq=infographics+
+theoris+MANAGEMENT&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoICAAQCBAHEB5Q2sISWK7REmCx1hJoAHAAeA
CAAXGIAfMEkgEDNS4ymAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=PFs7X6i9FLWZr
7wP2rKx2A0&bih=706&biw=1519&hl=en

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