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Managerial roles using Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg is a set of ten roles that a manager fills when is categorized into three roles which are interpersonal, informational and decisional. Interpersonal roles involve human interaction, informational roles engage sharing and analyzing of information and decisional occupies decision making (Daft, 2012). Interpersonal roles

Figurehead

As a manager, you have social, ceremonial and legal responsibilities. You're expected to be a source of inspiration. People look up to you as a person with authority, and as a figurehead.

This is where you provide leadership for your team, your department or perhaps your entire organization; and it's where you manage the performance and responsibilities of everyone in the group. Leader Managers must communicate with internal and external contacts. You need to be able to network

effectively

on

behalf

of

your

organization.

In this role, you regularly seek out information Liaison

related to your organization and industry, looking

for

relevant

changes

in

the

environment. You also monitor your team, in terms of both their productivity, and their wellbeing.

Informational roles

Monitor

This is where you communicate potentially useful information to your colleagues and your

team.

Managers

represent

and

speak

for

their

organization. In this role, you're responsible for transmitting

information

about

your

organization and its goals to the people outside it.

Disseminator

As a manager, you create and control change within the organization. This means solving problems,

generating

new

ideas,

and

implementing them.

Spokesperson

When an organization or team hits an unexpected roadblock, it's the manager who must take charge. You also need to help mediate disputes within it.

Decisional roles

Entrepreneur

.

Also need to determine where organizational resources are best applied. This involves allocating funding, as well as assigning staff and other organizational resources.

Author developed (2019) Bagad (2008)

Functions of manager One of the main roles of manager is to plan how to achieve their goals from their basic to most complex form. In order to achieve it, they should follow the four functions which will lead to accomplishing the objectives. There are four functions are; planning, organizing, leading and controlling (Tomlinson, 2016).

Planning Planning is defined as the step that involves mapping out exactly how to achieve a particular goal. For example, the organization's goal is to improve company sales therefore the manager first needs to decide which steps are necessary to accomplish that goal. These steps may include increasing advertising, inventory, and sales staff. These necessary steps are developed into a plan and when the plan is in place, the manager can follow it to accomplish the goal of improving company sales (Read, 2010). Organising Organsing is when the manager decides how to distribute resources and organize her employees according to the plan. For instance, a manager will need to identify different roles and ensure that he/she assigns the right amount of employees to carry out the plan. Further, the manager will also need to delegate authority, assign work, and provide direction so that the team of sales representatives can work towards higher sales numbers without having barriers in their way (Daft, 2012). Leading A manager needs to do more than just plan, organize, and staff her team to achieve a goal. She must also lead. Leading involves motivating, communicating, guiding, and encouraging. It requires the manager to coach, assist, and problem solve with employees. For example, a team needs a team leader to look after each task that is accomplished, in-process, or aborted (Furusten, 2015). Controlling After the other elements are in place, a manager's job is not finished. He needs to continuously check results against goals and take any corrective actions necessary to make sure that his area's plans remain on track which is called as controlling.

Comparison between roles of a leader and functions of a manager The main difference between leaders and managers is that leaders have people follow them while managers have people who work for them. A successful business owner needs to be both a strong

leader and manager to get their team on board to follow them towards their vision of success. Leadership is about getting people to understand and believe in your vision and to work with you to achieve your goals while managing is more about administering and making sure the day-today things are happening as they should. Moreover, other ways in which the roles and functions differentiate are that leaders create a vision, managers create goals, leaders are change agents whereas managers maintain the status and leaders are unique but managers copy....