Mintzberg's Role Of Managerial Roles

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Definition of Key Term The manager plays the major role in his organization decision making business system. Professor Henry Mintzberg formed the managerial role into three categories of management. The first category is interpersonal in which the roles refers to (figurehead, leader, liaison), next is informational category in which the role refers to (monitor, disseminator, spokesperson) and finally decisional category in which the role refers to (entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, negotiator). Summary In study to the global environment, impacted by a myriad of social, economic and technological forces, managerial roles have, over the past two decades, undergone dramatic transformation. Indeed, managers around the world are struggling to redefine their role and responsibilities against a backdrop of classic ten roles of managers espoused by Mintzberg in the 1970s, which were based on his three managerial category roles. The importance of managerial roles in …show more content…

Fayol identified managerial activities as “concerned with drawing up the broad plan of operations of business, with assembling personnel, coordinating and harmonizing effort and activity. They both reference ground breaking guide lines of how to manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control managerial behavior and styles. Far from ignoring the issue of leadership, Fayol (1949, pp. 98-103) captures this construct in his discussion of the managerial function of “command”, as one exercises command through a thorough knowledge of the personnel; by balancing the interests of the

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