Management Functions
Functions
• Planning - Defining goals, establishing strategies to achieve
goals, and developing plans to integrate and coordinate
activities
• Organizing - Arranging and structuring work to accomplish
organizational goals
• Leading - Working with and through people to accomplish
goals
• Controlling - Monitoring, comparing, and correcting work
Roles
• Interpersonal roles
• Informational roles
• Decisional roles
Role Description Example
Information Roles
•Seeks out and gathers •Finding out about legal
Monitor information relevant to restrictions on new
the organization product technology
•Providing current
•Provides information
production figures to
Disseminator where it is needed in
workers on the
the organization
assembly line
•Transmits information •Representing the
Spokesperson to people outside the company at a
organization shareholders’ meeting
Source: 6.6 Managerial Roles - Introduction to Business | OpenStax
Interpersonal Roles
•Cutting the ribbon at
•Represents the company
Figurehead ceremony for the opening
in a symbolic way
of a new building
•Guides and motivates •Helping subordinates to
Leader employees to achieve set monthly performance
organizational goals goals
•Acts as a go-between •Representing the retail
among individuals inside sales division of the
Liaison
and outside the company at a regional
organization sales meeting
Source: 6.6 Managerial Roles - Introduction to Business | OpenStax
Decisional Roles
•Searches out new •Implementing a new
Entrepreneur opportunities and production process using
initiates change new technology
•Handles unexpected •Handling a crisis
Disturbance handler
events and crises situation such as a fire
•Designates the use of •Approving the funds
financial, human, and necessary to purchase
Resource allocator
other organizational computer equipment and
resources hire personnel
•Participating in salary
•Represents the company
Negotiator negotiations with union
at negotiating processes
representatives
Source: 6.6 Managerial Roles - Introduction to Business | OpenStax
Source
• Organisational Behaviour: Meaning, Scope, Nature, Models &
Importance (economicsdiscussion.net)
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