Managerial Roles and The General Environment

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Managers today are faced with new and changing challenges every moment. For this reason, managers must be able to adapt to their employees as well as adapting their management styles toward the workplace. Managers can be described as requiring the ability to play a certain number of roles; these roles can be called organizational behaviors. Henry Mintzberg (1973) identified in his works ten behaviors which are common to all managers. In Mintzberg's hierarchy, the ten behaviors were separated into three groups; the interpersonal, the informational and the decisional.

In the first role we will discuss, the interpersonal


The resource allocator - chooses where the organization will expend its efforts

The liaison - interacts with peers and people outside the organization

The entrepreneur - the manager initiates change.

The disseminator - transmits special information into the organization

To summarize, it can be said that the informational subset are those who coalesce information. Interpersonal roles make sure that information gets out and about. Decisional managers make sure that the information is used and used correctly.



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