MGSC46H3 : The Manager's Job
24 Jan 2011
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Managers usually say they plan, organize, coordinate, and control. However, this article will be introducing a more supportable and useful description of managerial work. Their activities are characterized by brevity, variety, and discontinuity, and they are strongly oriented to action and dislike reflective activities. Managerial work involves performing a number of regular duties, including ritual and ceremony, negotiations, and processing of soft information that links the organization with its environment. Managers strongly favour verbal media, telephone calls and meetings, over documents. The managers programs to schedule time, process information, make decisions, and so on remain locked deep inside their brains. The manager emerges as the nerve centre of the organizational unit because of their interpersonal contacts. Processing information is a key part of the managers job. The manager plays the major role in the units decision making system. Two or three people cannot share a single managerial position unless they can act as one entity.
