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    Henry Mintzberg identified 10 main roles that managers play, categorized into 3 groups: interpersonal roles which involve interacting with people, informational roles which involve processing and sharing information, and decisional roles which involve making decisions. The interpersonal roles are figurehead, leader, and liaison. The informational roles are monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The decisional roles are entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator.

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    Henry Mintzberg identified 10 main roles that managers play, categorized into 3 groups: interpersonal roles which involve interacting with people, informational roles which involve processing and sharing information, and decisional roles which involve making decisions. The interpersonal roles are figurehead, leader, and liaison. The informational roles are monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The decisional roles are entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator.

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    Mintzberg's Management Roles

     Mintzberg’s Management Roles is a Guideline that


    describes what Roles Managers tend to play on a daily
    basis.
     These Roles were established by Henry Mintzberg in
    1990.
      
     According to Mintzberg, there are 10 main Roles that
    Managers usually play.
     These Roles are classified into 3 different categories:
     Interpersonal Roles.
     Informational Roles.
     Decisional Roles.
    1. Interpersonal Roles

     These Roles are those whose purpose is


    to Interact, Motivate and Improve Relationships between employees.
      
     1. Figurehead: Managers tend to be Aspirational Figures.
     Somebody people admire, with Authority, Presence and Integrity.
      
     2. Leader: Managers lead People, not just on Work-related matters.
     Managers know How to Lead and make People follow them.
      
     3. Liaison: Managers must know How to Bond and establish
    Relationships.
     Establishing alliances with third parties and other internal
    departments.
      
    2. Informational Roles

     Managers know, or must know, How


    to Understand, Process and Transmit data, in order to Allocate Resources
    properly.
     
     4. Monitor: Managers Analyze and draw Accurate Conclusions from

    available data.
     They know what information is important and what is not.

     
     5. Disseminator: Managers know How to Transmit data effectively.
     Highlighting what is important based on who will receive the Information.

     
     6. Spokesperson: A Manager knows How to speak on behalf of the

    Company.
     No matter if he (or she) speaks with internal employees or third parties.
     
    3. Decisional Roles

     Managers tend to fill that position because they know


    how to make the best Decisions.
     A right decision can make a company successful …
    And a bad one can doom it.

     7. Entrepreneur: A Manager has to be able to take


    Innovative and Brave Decisions.
     Adapting to New Trends and Technologies.
      
     8. Disturbance Handler: Managers must solve the
    Problems that the Company has Internal and external
    Problems.
     9. Resource Allocator: Managers
    must Properly Allocate Company Resources.
     By assigning the right tasks to the right
    employees, for example.
      
     10. Negotiator: Managing implies to
    Negotiate with Employees, Suppliers, etc.
     A Manager is continuously Negotiating to make
    things move forward.
     Roles of Managers – Interpersonal Roles,
    Informational Roles and Decisional Roles
     1. Interpersonal Role:
     i. Figure Head Role: 
     a. Doing ceremonial duties like receiving visitors,

    attending the wedding of subordinates.


     b. Signing documents.
     c. Delivering speeches at social gatherings.
     ii. Leadership Role:   
     Motivating subordinates and directing them

    towards goal accomplishment.


     iii. Liaison Role: 
     a. Integrating organization internally and

    externally.
     b. Integrating individuals with the

    organization vertically and horizontally.


     c. Integrating the organization with its

    environment to assess the level of


    competition, magnitude of social change,
    impact of Government policies, and
    legislative enactment, etc.
     2. Informational Role:
     i. Monitoring Role:
     Receiving from several sources to obtain thorough
    knowledge about environments influencing
    organization.
     ii. Disseminator:   
     Transmitting information collected from different
    sources to other members of the organization.
     iii. Spokesperson:   
     Representing organization to the outside world and
    explaining goals, policies decision, programmes and
    results of certain actions.
     3. Decisional Role:
     i. Entrepreneurs: 
     a. Whenever opportunities manifest, he initiates
    action for capitalizing it. 
     b. Absorbing changes or bringing in changes
    into the organization to capitalize opportunities
    identified through environmental scanning.
     c. Conducting viability study, organizing
    strategy meeting with the project manager and
    R&D personnel.
     ii. Trouble Shooter:   
     Intervening whenever unexpected events unfold like
    strike, grievances, cash flow shortage, accident, etc.
     iii. Resource Allocator:   
     Deciding the priorities of organizational activities
    and allocating resources to those activities.
     iv. Negotiator:  
     Representing an organization in negotiating deals
    within the organization and also with external
    agencies like suppliers’ contractors, banks and the
    like.

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