Topic: Managerial roles & skills
Mintzberg's research on what managers actually do?
Course: Organisational Behaviour
Name: Siddhi Paras Gundecha
PNR: 1062232542
Who Is MANAGER?
A person responsible for Management of an organization
or group of people.
As such, a manager is one who undertakes management
activities.
Being a manager means assuming various managerial
roles at the same time. You would have to be an
inspirational leader, take responsibility for people and
processes, and handle multiple issues of different kinds.
Each of the roles managers perform is important, and
each presents its own challenges.
What Are
Mintzberg's Management Roles?
Mintzberg published his Ten Management Roles in his
book, "Mintzberg on Management: Inside our Strange
World of Organizations," in 1990.
Mintzberg's 10 Management Roles model as a frame of
reference when one is thinking about developing skills
and knowledge.
The ten management roles are broadly classified in
three categories
Let's look at each of the ten managerial roles in greater
detail.
The ten management roles are broadly
classified in three categories
Interpersonal Management Roles
The Managerial Roles In This Category Involve Followings:
Figurehead – As a manager, you have social, ceremonial and
legal responsibilities. You're expected to be a source of
inspiration. People look up to you as a person with authority,
and as a figurehead.
Leader – This is where you provide leadership for your
team, your department or perhaps your entire organization;
and it's where you manage the performance and
responsibilities of everyone in the group.
Liaison – Managers must communicate with internal and
external contacts. You need to be able to network effectively
on behalf of your organization.
Informational Management Roles
The managerial roles in this category
involve processing information.
Monitor – In this role, you regularly seek out information related
to your organization and industry, looking for relevant changes in
the environment. You also monitor your team, in terms of both
their productivity, and their well-being.
Disseminator – This is where you communicate potentially
useful information to your colleagues and your team.
Spokesperson – Managers represent and speak for their
organization. In this role, you're responsible for transmitting
information about your organization and its goals to the people
outside it.
Decisional Management Roles
The managerial roles in this category involve using information.
Entrepreneur – As a manager, you create and control change
within the organization. This means solving problems,
generating new ideas, and implementing them.
Disturbance Handler – When an organization or team hits an
unexpected roadblock, it's the manager who must take charge.
You also need to help mediate disputes within it.
Resource Allocator – You'll also need to determine where
organizational resources are best applied. This involves
allocating funding, as well as assigning staff and other
organizational resources.
Negotiator – You may be needed to take part in, and direct,
important negotiations within your team, department, or
organization.
If we analyze Mintzberg’s findings, we can say that
authority and status derive the interpersonal roles;
interpersonal makes it necessary for a manager to play
informational roles. And that
enables a manager to make a decision.
These ten roles of a manager, stated by Mintzberg,
come with many responsibilities. Informing,
Connecting, and orders require a manager to be able to
adapt to the situation and control it in a balanced way.
