Managing The Organization

What are the managers’ jobs? How can they improve their skills and qualities?

What is a manager? This sound is like simple enough, but it is different.

Especially if you’ve been an owner or manager for some time, the way of thinking of you and your employees to the word "MANAGER" is can be totally different. The manager works for an organization with lots of responsibilities. His/hers job is pretty tough and has high risks when they have to deal with the problems. There are four sets of management functions when they attempt to accomplish their goal.

1. Set the goal

2. Plan how they will accomplish the goal

3. Take the actions outlined in plan

4. Evaluate what is working and what is not and continually adjust their course until they have accomplished the goal.

Depending on the size of the company there might be a single, double or triple management layer involved. Most of the companies’ management is basically divided into three layers:

1. Lower-level management,

2. Mid-level management and

3. Upper-level management.

Lower-level management includes managers who work in touch with the

non-managerial staffs and who closely work with the customers. Mid-level management includes managers who work for the top managers and who manage the first-line managers. Upper-level management commonly consists of a board of directors and shareholders. These types of managers are the ones who have to take the responsibility of the whole organization.

There are many different roles of managers. The first role is known as Figurehead, which performs duties and involves with people and they represent the organization. Another role is informational which consists of monitor who keeps track of the information from both inside and outside of the organization. Most of them take care of the job of presenting the organization’s improvements and problems to the outsider and also take care of the information to deliver to the organization. The last roles are Decision Makers, in which the managers who take part of the organization’s decision making. Entrepreneurs, who initiate the organization’s performance to improve. Disturbance handlers, who take action in organization’s problems. Resource allocators, who take cares of the human resources and allocation of the employees. At last, Negotiators, who take cares of the discussion and bargaining with outsiders for the good of the organization.

In the past time, what we know of the managers’ jobs were mostly job-focused. Managers are the one who make decisions, they must be in right time at the office and their jobs are promoted by their experiences and their performances.