Functions of the Management Flashcards
It entails four basic functions: planning, organizing, leading, and
controlling resources
Management
Managers perform ceremonial obligations;
provide leadership to employees; build a
network of relationships with bosses, peers, and employees
Interpersonal roles
It means symbolic-head. His
activities include ceremony, status requests and
solicitations.
Figurehead
It means responsible for motivating and
activating the subordinates. His activities include responsibility for staffing, training, subordinate’s team building, etc.
Leader
It means maintaining a self-developed
network of outside contacts and information. His activities include interactions with outsiders,
responding to mails, external board work. etc.
Liason
Managers spend a fair amount of time gathering information by questioning people both inside and outside the organization. They also distribute information to employees, other
managers, and outsiders.
Informational Roles
This means seeking and receiving a wide variety of special information to develop a thorough understanding of organization and environment. He acts as the nerve centre of internal and external
information. His activities include receiving information and creating a
knowledge-based.
Monitor
This means transmission of outside information to his subordinates. His role includes filtering, clarifying, interpreting and integrating different information so that value- added knowledge
emerges for organizational use. His activities also support verbal
communication with subordinates’ review meeting, etc.
Disseminator
This means transmitting information to outsiders on behalf of the organization or department that he heads. He serves as an
expert to clarify the organizational plan, policies, actions and results. His
activities include handling mails and contacts with outsiders.
Spokesperson
Managers use the information they gather to encourage innovation, to resolve unexpected problems that threaten organizational goals (such as reacting to an economic crisis), and to decide how organizational resources will be
used to meet planned objectives.
Decisional Roles
This means searching the organization and its environment for opportunities and initiating the “improvement (or change) process” to bring about transformation. This involves designing and completing projects for changes, leading to improvements.
Entrepreneur
This means responsibility related to corrective actions
when organization faces sudden, unexpected disturbances. His actions
include review and rectification of the crisis.
Disturbance Handler
This means responsibilities related to the allocation of
resources of the organization among all concerned people or departments.
His actions involve scheduling. budgeting, allocation of duties to
subordinates, authorization, etc.
Resource Allocator
Four basic functions of management:
PLANNING, ORGANIZING, DIRECTING & CONTROLLING
is the primary management function, the one on which all
others depend. Managers engaged in planning develop strategies for
success, establish goals and objectives for the organization, and
translate their strategies and goals into action plans.
Planning Functions
