The Manager’s Job

Folklore & Fact *

• Group Members • Mayank Chaturvedi

• Abhisekh Srivastav • Supriya Ghalsasi
• Darpan Choudhary • Thakur Pherwani

*HBR Classic- by Henry Mintzberg

Objective & Outline

Context & Reality

Definitions

Manager’s Role

Importance &
Implication
Summary &
Conclusion
 Foremen Factory
Context & Reality Supervisor Staff
Field Sales Manager
Planning 1 Manager Hospital
administrator
President of
1916, H Fayol
company Street Gang
Organizing 2 Typical Managers
Activities Leader
“Internal Process” Model
of Management Fact and Reality
Mintzberg Model
Coordinating 3 MANAGER
The person in charge of Manager’s Task
an organization or one of involving
its subunits. improvisation &
Controlling 4 relationship
 Definition
Managers have something in common

Authority gives
status and this Decision &
Authority leads to Strategy
interpersonal making
relationship

Managers are Access of

vested with information helps
formal Access to manager to make
authority over information decision or define
an org/unit the strategy
 Manager’s Role
Folklore

Manager is Reflective, Systemic

Planner

The Effective Manager has no

regular duties to perform
Folklore Fact

The Senior Manager needs

aggregated information, probably
from some “MIS” or “TIS”

Management is quickly becoming

a science and profession
Manager’s Role
Managers work at an unrelenting pace, their activities are
Fact characterized by brevity, variety, discontinuity. They are
strongly oriented to action and dislike reflective activities

Managerial work involves performing a number of

regular duties, including ritual and ceremony, negotiations
and processing of soft information that links the
Folklore
Fact organization with its environment.

Out of 5 basic media to choose from manager favor the

verbal media – phone calls and meetings.

The managers’ programs – to schedule time, process info,

make decisions – remain locked inside their brains.
 Manager’s Role
Manager’s Role Is An Integration
Fact
Formal Interpersonal
Authority & Role
Status
• Act like an • Figurehead
authority/ with given • Leader
Manager’s status • Liaison
Informational Decisional Role
Role Role
\ • Monitor • Entrepreneur
• Disseminator • Disturbance handler
• Spokesman • Resource allocator
• Negotiator
Different managers stress on different roles
ex: - Sales Managers: interpersonal role All Roles remain inseparable
Production Managers: decisional role
 Importance &
Implication
Effective Management
To be the Significant Influencer:

The better the managers understands and

responds to dilemmas of the job, the more
he will be effective

TOOL FOR MANAGER FOR SELF INTROSPECTION AND

REFLECTION- 14 SELF STUDY QUESTIONS FOR MANAGERS
 Importance & Debottlenecking-Managerial Logjam
Implication Training & practice can help managers to gain more time to
work on forward looking strategy and discharging the
obligation helps managers to gain more allies and collective
force for success.
The Dilemma of Delegation Build trust & share the
relevant info and task with
subordinates
The Database
centralized in one brain Use alternative methods to store
data and information which can be
shared with relevant stakeholders
The Problem of
working with the Collaborate & build relationship with
management scientist scientist. Managers have the information
and authority and scientist have the time &
technology.
Summary
Conclusion
Managers job Delegation Disseminate
information via
Managers wear is not fixed of task or
various ways
different hats at information and means
Managers
different time as must upward or
per situation introspect downward Collaboration
demands they play and react asboth are with scientific
different roles per the constructive mindset
situation members always
Managers must be trained on such skills not only in turn out to be
class, but also significant amount of time should be useful and brings
spent at work to practice it to get desired outcome success
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