MANAGERIAL ROLES AND

FUNCTIONS

Anna Divine D. Espiritu

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 Who is a Manager?
• Boss; head; someone who is in charge
• Someone who coordinates and oversees the
work of other people so organizational goals
can be accomplished.
• Deals with complicated and social responsibility
issues as they plan, organize, lead and control.
• A manager is an expert, trained and
experienced enough to adeptly manage
any type of organization.
 Setting goals and
Identifying and making decisions
arranging the
work and Determines
resources to what
needed to extent the
achieve the business is in
goals that accomplishing
have been set the goals it
set out to
reach in the
planning stage

Function of
Effort to direct
recruitment,
and lead people
selection, training
to accomplish
and placement;
the planned
Assigning right
work of the
position to the
organization
right person
Managerial Roles (Mintzberg)
TYPES OF RESOURCES
MANAGERIAL SKILLS
 MANAGERIAL SKILLS

The ability of managers to influence and engage

others using a compelling and charismatic
interpersonal style.
MANAGERIAL SKILLS (Katz)

The ability to see a problem or situation from

different points of view.
MANAGERIAL SKILLS (Katz)

Problems would come and go in the library (big

or small) but manager’s role is to find ways
how to solve them with the right approach
even at tough situations.
MANAGERIAL SKILLS (Katz)

Managers need to know the best techniques for

managing teams as well as how to coach and
mentor their subordinates.
MANAGERIAL SKILLS (Katz)

Ability to manage on where the funding would

come from, where it goes, and how to get it
for the library.
MANAGERIAL SKILLS (Katz)

 Familiarity with computer-based information

systems.
 Overall systems and procedures of the library
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