Individual and Group Dynamics

The Manager’s Job

- Submission 1

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Study group C8
 Who are Managers ?
Managers are almost never actually what they are defined as.

-They are often people whose work can never be

defined, estimated or evaluated
 General Folklores Facts
• It is reflective and a Systematic • It has discontinuity and has
Planner Strongly oriented to action

• It does not perform Regular • Regular negotiations and

Activities passing on soft information

• It needs MIS for aggregated • They rather go for personal

information meetings and oral interactions

• Management is a Science • Based on judgemental

intuitions
What actually does a Managerial job constitute of ?

Interpersonal Roles

• Figure head – He performs various Ceremonial Duties

• Leader – They are responsible for the actions of their team

• Liaison – He helps the organizational groups to work with each other

and provide information to each other
 Informational Roles

• Monitor – Scans the environment for information

• Disseminator – Passes privileged information to subordinates

• Spokesperson – Shares the information to people outside the unit

 Decision Roles
• Entrepreneurship –- He always has new ideas to adapt with the
changing environment

• Disturbance Handler – Responding to situations, even if they are not

under his control

• Resource Allocator – Decisions regarding who gets what

• Negotiator – Negotiations become a regular activity for any Manager

 Thus,
Role of a manager = combination of all 10 roles

(They cannot be easily separated)

Finally, a Manager can be effective only when he has a proper insight

of his own work.