Darina Karas

National University of Food Technologies

 

THE BASIC ROLES OF MANAGER IN BUSINESS

ORGANIZATION

 

Management is the act of getting people together to accomplish shared goals and make effective and efficient use of available resources. Since organizations can be viewed as systems, management can also be defined as human action to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system. This view includes how workers can "manage" themselves and how self-management can be seen as a prerequisite for effective management of other people [4].

Nowadays management conceptions are concentrated rather on showing the inferior the direction than on tight control. Although the level of knowledge, necessary for effective job processing, has lately enormously increased and methods of its accomplishing are often different, the main purpose of manager became the same – managing in a such way, that hitherto prevailing quantity and quality of production could be sustained by keeping up good interhuman relationships in the enterprice.

Manager performs many various roles in business organization. Very often they arise as a result of existence of certain behavior patterns which function in external and internal environment of the company and are related with position of a given person in the organization’s structure [2].

The manager is the life of the organization. The manager ensure that the organization perform to expectation, he must also ensure that the firm archive it purpose and goals, to do this the manager perform certain roles and duties ,this include organizing controlling ,directing coordinating and leading. The manager may be the entrepreneur, sometimes he may not be, however, at all-times the manager must aggregate the resources of the firm to attain the firm’s goals and objectives of the firm

The manager to be able to carry on this duties he must posses certain skills this include interpersonal skill, people skill, Conceptual Skills, People Skills, Technical Skills etc Some managers demonstrate these skills very strongly while others only demonstrate it fairly. There are basically three levels of management within the business organization; these include the top management, the middle management and the lower management.

The various skills and duties of the manager is performed at different level of management .this study explore the roles, the skills and the functions of the manager at various levels of the organization. It also explores the performance contribution of each of the skills and roles to the health and goals attainment of the organization[3].

The way of fulfilling the social role by the person depends both on subjective factors, his personality traits, the personality as well as on objective, outside factors in the relation to him. It is possible to point out here two approaches to determinants of thefulfilling of the roles by the given manager:

– individualistic approach – where the person’s individual features are influencing the specification of him according to his position in the team and the content of his roles, and so the manager has influence on shaping the situation in which he is located but what effects he/she is reaching depends on the general ability to wield managerial duties chiefly,

– situation theory – according to which it is the objective situation that influences the management style, the quality, effects of directing, for fulfilling the managerial roles, because the situation requires the determined decision and individual features are leaving for the other plan here.

Both theories are not staying in the contradiction in reality since working of the

manager refers to various contexts. Because he has bigger influence on the situation in which he is operating he has a bigger power, he has the more important role or the high office position in the organizational structure of the given company. It refers to influence on his direct, nearest environment, i.e. for the company and the internal context of his functioning [1].

The economic growth and dynamics of the environment influence the evolution of manager’s roles.  It is possible to separate among objective, outside conditioning

of managers’ roles the five basic factors which exert bigger and bigger influence on the manager’s activity. They are the following:

– broad institutional perspective;

– widening geographical limits and political perspectives;

– information challenge;

– growing complexity of the company as the system of action;

– the variety and variability of requests in the relation to the company [2].

         Nowadays the managerial roles have widened, became more complicated, active and creative. Managers, who want to administrate enterprises in an appropriate way must be up to the mark, fulfill more and more functions and play on many stages. They should be flexible, be able to adapt themselves to different situations and play many roles, change roles, adapt them and even create the roles, because the internal and external contexts of company’s functioning are constantly changing.

References:

1.     Arnold J., Cooper C.L., Robertson I.T. : Work Psychology. Pitman Publishing, London. First edition 2010, p. 440.

2.     Sports Business Journal. Athlete advisors Klarberg, Furst Close to Deal, April 9, 2013.

3.     Journal of African Macroeconomic Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, (2011).

4.      https://www.boundless.com/business/textbooks/boundless-business-textbook/organizational-structure-9/defining-organization-64/management-role-in-organization-306-4007.

Scientific supervisor H. Cherednichenko