What are roles of a manager?

Answer 1

The job (role) of a project manager is extremely challenging and thereby exciting. Depending on the organizational structure of your organization, you may be reporting to a functional manager, a program manager, a portfolio manager, or to some other manager or executive. Nevertheless, it is your responsibility to work with your team and other relevant individuals and groups, such as program managers and portfolio managers, to bring all the pieces together and make the project happen i.e., to achieve the project objectives.

To do this, you need a range of skills and capabilities. They are:

1. Communication

2. Negotiation

3. Problem Solving

4. Influencing

5. Leadership

Ans: There are three types of roles are broadly classified

1) Interpersonal Roles

2) Informational Roles

3) Decision Roles

1. Interpersonal Roles

Under this role, the Manager is taking a major portion of responsibility to manage different things under Management. The following are the most important roles under this i.e.,

a) The figure head role

b) The Leader's Role

c) The Liaison Role

2. Informational Roles

This is the role that the manager plays a coordination with all the superiors and

Subordinates to manage the things sophisticatedly. Under this the following are the informational roles

a) The recipient role: Which relates to receiving the information from their superiors

b) The Disseminator Role: Which relates to passing the information to the subordinates

c) The spokes person role: This relates to transmitting the information to those outside of the organization and simultaneously receives or collects the information from outsiders of the organization.

3. Decision Role

Under this role, the Manager plays a very important and active part and here the Manager is taking full responsibility to manage and decide the things even the administrative point of view also.

Under this the following are the important decision

a) The Entrepreneurial role

b) A disturbance handler role

c) The resource allocator role

d) The negotiator role, which relates to dealing with trade unions, inside parties and outside parties etc.,

The following are the function of Manager under the Management

1) Planning

2) Organization

3) Staffing

4) Directing

5) Controlling

Planning: Planning is an important function of Manager under the Management.

Whit out proper planning there is not things to be done sophisticatedly