Management Roles in the 21st century

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Rishu Kumar Jalan

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Due Date – 25th June 24, 2019

Words Count - 661

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Introduction
Management is the significant portion in every associations. It’s an art, science and profession
where creative ideas are required, it must be universally applicable and requires possession of
formal education and skills. It’s set up with the purpose of achieving goals in an effective and
efficient manners through planning, organizing, controlling, staffing and coordinating. For
example, a business might plan to achieve in increase in sales by 30% by the year 2020. It
could organize by building up the dual structure, material, human and decide how to achieve
the objective. It will coordinate by targets and procedures. The purpose of controlling is to find
out the weakness and errors in order to improve them and prevent repetitions of errors.

Review of literature

The Role of Managers in Organizations: Psychological Aspects (Tovmasyan, 2017).This

article mentions that the psychological factors have great effect on management. It indicates if
people in the firm are extrovert or introvert and helps to improve decisional making process.
In my opinion, psychology helps managers to investigate how to make people work more
effectively by discovering their nature.

Social Media Can Play a Role in Business Process Management. (Pearson, 2017). This article
indicates that social media is a best tool for managers to communicate with other departments
to share research findings and ideas. From my view, social media benefits to increase self-
awareness about the brand around the world and it boost sales.

What Management Needs to Become in an Era of Ecosystems. (Straub, 2019). This article
concludes that managers have to become more innovative and must choose appropriate
management styles to achieve greater impact and success. I assume that manages who adjust
to fit in this ecosystem are better able to succeed.

Five Critical Roles in Project Management. (Staff, 2016). This article specifies the roles carried
out by project managers. The roles are planning, organizing, controlling, budgeting and
analysing. Managers must have a clear understanding of their roles to meet the project
objectives.

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways (Joseph Pistrui and Dimo Dimov, 2018).
This article tells manager have to change in five key ways. They are changing from exclusive
to inclusive, repetitive to innovate, problem solver to challenger, employer to entrepreneur and
directive to instructive. This change will help organizations to meet today’s challenges.

Analysis of the roles

Article Theory Explanation Is it still How it is practiced today

applicable?
1 Human Resource It focuses on managing
Management people (recruiting & training)
Approach to ensure that they fit into the
organisation to achieve its
objective.
2 System Approach There must be a proper
communication between each
department to facilitate
interaction to achieve a
common goal.
3 Bureaucratic It’s an organisational
structure that have many
rules, procedures, division of
labour and interaction
between employees.
Yes Managers and employees
can be either introvert or
extrovert. What matters is
whether they are capable
or not.
Yes Communication with other
departments via social
media still exit when
planning for a certain
objective or when
launching a new product.
For example, finance
department will be
involved in setting budgets
while marketing
department will be
involved to find the likes
of customers.
No Organisations nowadays
don’t have complex
procedures and rules to
follow instead it have
wider spans of control

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 4 Administrative It explains five functions of
Theory management by Henri Fayol.
5 Modern It’s a system that changes
Management with the change in its
Theory environment. (Internal &
External)
The five functions of
Yes management are used in
every aspect of decision-
making process.
Yes Managers adapt to the
change in environment to
meet new challenges and
opportunities.

Summary

• The effectiveness of management and decision-making process depends on the

psychology of managers.
• Communicating with other departments of the business is very important in decision
making process.
• Managers have to choose the best business structure to have effective
communications from top level management to bottom level management.
• Managers have to adapt to changes according to its environment.

References

Joseph Pistrui and Dimo Dimov. (2018, October 26). The Role of a Manager Has to Change
in 5 Key Ways. Harvard Business Review.
Pearson, M. (2017). Social Media Can Play a Role in Business Process Management.Harvard
Business Review.
Staff, H. B. (2016, November 03). Five Critical Roles in Project Management. Harvard
Business Review.
Straub, R. (2019, June 05). What mamagement needs to become in an era of ecosystems.
Harvard Business Review.
Tovmasyan, G. (2017). The Role of Managers in Organization:Psychological Aspects.
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