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Understanding Managerial Roles and Functions

The document outlines the principles of management, emphasizing the balance between effectiveness and efficiency through productivity improvement. It details the functions of managers, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, as well as the roles they play as identified by Henry Mintzberg. Additionally, it highlights the essential skills needed for managers and the universality of management across different organizational types.

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Understanding Managerial Roles and Functions

The document outlines the principles of management, emphasizing the balance between effectiveness and efficiency through productivity improvement. It details the functions of managers, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, as well as the roles they play as identified by Henry Mintzberg. Additionally, it highlights the essential skills needed for managers and the universality of management across different organizational types.

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Principles of management

Laith rababah
FAHAD BIN SULTAN UNIVERSITY
business and management college
Chapter 1
 Lecture 2
How do you balance effectiveness and
efficiency?

 Productivity improvement (a favorable ratio between inputs and output) is the


constant struggle to balance effectiveness and efficiency.
What Do manager Do ?

In the functions approach


proposed by French industrialist
Henri Fayol

“ All managers perform certain


activities or function “
What Managers Do?
• Functions Manager’s Perform
 Planning
 Defining goals, establishing strategies to achieve goals, developing plans to integrate
and coordinate activities.
 Organizing
 Arranging and structuring work to accomplish organizational goals.
 Leading
 Working with and through people to accomplish goals.
 Controlling
 Monitoring, comparing, and correcting work.
Managers Functions
What Managers Do?

 Roles Manager’s Play:


 Roles are specific actions or behaviors expected of a manager.
 Henry Mintzberg identified 10 roles grouped around interpersonal relationships, the
transfer of information, and decision making.
Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles
 Interpersonal Roles :
 Figurehead
 Leader
 Liaison
 Informational Roles :
 Monitor
 Disseminator
 Spokesperson
 Decisional Roles :
 Entrepreneur
 Disturbance handler
 Resource allocator
 Negotiator
Minzbreg MANAGER’S Role : Update

 Manager’s role is to influence action by :


 Managing actions directly .
 Managing people who take action .
 Managing information that propels people to take action.

 Manager’s dual roles include :


 Framing
 Scheduling
Difference Between Role and Function
What Skills Do Managers Need ?

 Conceptual skills :
 Used to analyze and diagnose complex situation
 Interpersonal Skills :
 Used to work with, understand, and motivate individuals and groups
 Technical Skills :
 Involve job – specific knowledge and techniques required to perform tasks .
 Political Skills :
 Used to build a power base and establish connections .
Is the Manager’s job Universal ?

 Level in Organization
 Profit vs. Nonprofit
Managerial Roles in Small and Large
Business .
Why Study Management?

 The universality of management


 Good management is needed in all organizations.
 The reality of work
 Employees either manage or are managed.
 Rewards and challenges of being a manager
 Management offers challenging, exciting and creative opportunities for meaningful and
fulfilling work.
 Successful managers receive significant monetary rewards for their efforts.
Universal Need for Management
Write a report considering you are a
manager in a company.
Explain your role and your function
in the company.

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