Managerial Roles or Roles of a Manager is a “Must-Know” for all intended managers, especially for management students. This article explains these roles and also, the personality traits and attributes of a manager.<\/p>\n
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Mintzberg identified (3) three group of roles which administrators and managers must play. They include the following:<\/p>\n
INTERPERSONAL ROLE:<\/h3>\n
This is the first of the three managerial roles propounded by Mintzberg. This arises from the administrators and managers formal authority and include:<\/p>\n
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- The figurehead or\u00a0ceremonial role: This took about 15% of chief executives time spent in contact with other people, according to Mintzberg studies.<\/li>\n
- The role of the leader: This involves hiring, firing and training staff, motivating employees, reconciling individual needs with the requirements of the organization.<\/li>\n
- The liaison role: It is performed by the chief executive\/managers when making contacts outside the vertical chain of command.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER<\/p>\n
Chief Executive Officers may spend a great deal of time with people outside the organisation. The purpose of the contacts is to build up an informal system and at the same a means of extending influence both within and outside the organisations.<\/p>\n
INFORMATIONAL ROLE<\/h3>\n
This is the second of the three managerial roles propounded by Mintzberg. A chief executive officer, as a leader, has access to every member of staff and may have more external contacts than any of them. His liaison contact means that he is a channel of information from inside the department to outside and vice-versa.<\/p>\n
Three types of information roles he plays are as follows:<\/p>\n
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- Monitoring the environment.<\/li>\n
- Disseminating information.<\/li>\n
- Spokesperson roles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
DECISION ROLE<\/h3>\n
This is the third of the three managerial roles propounded by Mintzberg. The chief executives are in a better position to take decisions relating to the work of the environment due to his formal authority and access to information. He takes charge of the under-listed;<\/p>\n
ENTREPRENEURIAL\u00a0ACT: He acts as an entrepreneur by initiating a number of projects of small-scale nature to improve the department or to help it react to a changing environment.<\/p>\n
DISTURBANCE HANDLER: He is meant to respond to pressure over which the department has no control. He is, therefore, a disturbance handler taking decisions in unusual situations that are difficult to predict.<\/p>\n
ALLOCATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES: He takes decisions relating to the allocation of scarce resources. He is also responsible for determining the departments, direction, and authorities, decisions taken by subordinates.<\/p>\n
NEGOTIATION: A great deal of time of a chief executive is spent on negotiation both within and outside the organisation.<\/p>\n
A Manager\u2019s Personality Traits and Attributes<\/h2>\n
Personality is a stable attribute that a person carries within and determines his approach to the problems of life. It is a pattern of disposition to act consistently in varying situations. The following are the traits required of a good chief executive officer;<\/p>\n
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- Appearance:<\/strong> A chief executive must have a corporate appearance. His look must be good and smart.<\/li>\n
- Ambition:<\/strong> A chief executive officer must be ambitious, looking forward towards achieving the organizational goal and personal advancement.<\/li>\n
- Good judgment<\/strong>: A chief executive officer must possess the sense of good judgment i.e. to determine the sense accurately what is to be done, how to do it and where to do it.<\/li>\n
- Inter-personal skill<\/strong>: A chief executive must have the ability to get along with others\u00a0effectively.<\/li>\n
- Intelligence:<\/strong> A chief executive should be intelligent i.e must possess a high degree of the intelligent quotient (IQ).<\/li>\n
- The desire to manage:<\/strong> Chief executive must have the desire to influence others and build up a team effort of subordinates.<\/li>\n
- Communicate:<\/strong> A chief executive officer must be able to communicate effectively through reports, letters and discussions.<\/li>\n
- Integrity and Honesty:<\/strong> Chief executive officer must behave in accordance with the ethical standard. He must be morally sound and worthy of trust.<\/li>\n
- Other personality traits and attributes of CEO are Innovation, initiative and perseverance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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