What do managers do?

Leadership - Harvard Business Review

What do managers do? Henry Mintzberg

Three roles;
Interpersonal roles - figurehead;
spent time on ceremonial duties, hiring and training staff, motivate and encourge employees, reconciling individual needs with the goals of the organization.liaison role - subordinates; clients, business associates, and suppliers; and peers, government and trade organization officials, fellow directors on outside boards

Informational roles;
Decisional roles;

Plan, organize, coordinate, and control

Required skills;
Developing peer relationships
Carrying out negotiations
Motivating subordinates
Resoving conflicts
Establishing information networks
Disseminating information
Making decisions with little or ambiguous information
allocating resources

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