...Every manager regardless of the nature of the organization or the functional area, in which they operate, executes their work in four key roles. According to the Henri Fayol’s functional approach, all managers plan, organize, command, coordinate and control. These traditional functions have been curtailed to reflect four major roles of a manager. (Robbins & Coulter, 2012). My paper will analyze these four roles of a manager within the functional areas of business. Planning Planning is the bedrock on which the other managerial functions operate. In order for a manager to create an environment where individuals are working together to achieve the organizational success, there must be planning. A manager’s job is to ensure that everyone understands the team’s goals and objectives and how to achieve them. Managers must establish the organization’s goals which outline what is needed, how to accomplish the company’s objectives and provide the allocated time to arrive at the stated goals. In addition managers are also required to provide the necessary steps in which to effectively implement the goals of the company. The final step in the planning role of a manager, is the evaluation process where they are able to assess the success of their plans and take corrective action when necessary. (Carpenter, Bauer & Erdogan, 2009). One of the most important planning processes of a company is the strategic planning concept, which is vital to the company’s survival, because...
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...Roles of a Manager Roles of a manager in the functional areas of business The primary responsibilities of a manager within the functional areas of business is to create an image of himself with the organization which helps in delivering the tasks as per the vision and mission of an organization by influencing the team positively. In today’s fast paced globalized and technological enhanced business environment the roles of the managers in the success of an organization is critical to the organizations success. This paper will discuss and evaluate aforementioned from the views of two articles and will confer the understanding and view of a modern leader. The role of managers is not limited to carrying out the daily activities of their respective teams. The functional area of the business determines the entire value chain and how effectively it can be optimized. The critical elements for the managers are to eliminate waste and inefficiency. The writer will evaluate two ‘journal articles’ in order to understand the role of managers in different areas of business. The article by Murale and Preetha (2011) discuss about the different behavioural paradigms that outline effective management. The second article by Pappa and Stergioulas (2008) draws attention to the rising role of technology in streamlining The functional area strategies of a business are concerned with approaches, practices and the actions of the organization. Since every department is carrying out a particular...
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...The Functional Roles of Human Resource Bernard Jackson Human Resources Management MBA 533 August 18, 2013 Abstract Many large, middle-sized and even small business organizations have a functional human resources department. The functional roles of an HR department remain the same regardless of the size of your business. As the name indicates, the department exists to manage and assist the human element of the company. Since human capital is the most important asset of any organization, having an efficient and quality human resources department is key to the quality and success of the organization. Human resources functional activity supports strategic initiatives. Strategic planning drives functional or transactional processes. HR managers are capable of implementing strategy and carrying out activities that support their strategic plans. Typically, a human resources manager or director develops department strategy depending on the functional expertise of HR specialists. Generally, HR is the process of managing and motivating employees. Some roles of HR vary based on the organization, but there are a number of common functions that are constant. If HR is effective, employees across the company produce optimal results. The functional roles of any Human Resource department varies but the duties are key to the success of any organization. Recruitment and hiring the right people, putting them in the right positions for their abilities and skills is crucial...
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...Human Resource Department Roles Audrick Willis HCS/341 May 8, 2013 Teletha Leonard Human Resource Department Roles Most organizations today have a human resource deparment. All HR deparments have roles that play for the organization regardless of the type and size. The purpose of the human deparment is to assist the human portion of the company. Its imporant that each organization has a HR deparment that is effiecient and has great quality this benefit the organization is varies ways. The functional roles of the HR deparment are very important towards the human because human are known to be very important to an organization. (Stringer) A very imporant function of the HR deparment is recruiment. The role of the recruiment function is to make sure that they recruit the right people for the job. (Stringer) They also then have made sure the each person they hired is in the correct job postions based upon their skills and abilities. This is a very important job and has a huge impact on the impact because as long as the employee do their jobs correct the organization will be a success. They also help with the interview process testing the employee abilities that they have for the job. Training the employees for the skills that are required for a job is also a functional role of the HR deparment. They have a trainging specialist that teaches the employees the learning objective and methods they need to do their job correctly. (Stringer) Most time the training is for leadership...
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...order to achieve a goal. (Robbins & Coulter, 2012). The role of organizations in a corporation has a different level of the importance, but all organizations must need to achieve the corporation’s goal effectively and efficiently. Most corporations must need people who manage the organization, and then managers have a different role to support a corporations’ competitiveness. According to Gilbert (1996) “Making broad strategy for a company is one of the major tasks of general managers. This involves setting long-term directions and goals, and allocating resources, so that the directions can be pursued, and the goals can be reached” (p.13) To improve corporation’s competitiveness, the manager in the functional areas takes some roles. There are two structures of the role of manager. One is the management function from Henri Fayol, and the other one is the managerial roles from Mintzberg. Henri Fayol’s the four functions of management are planning, organizing, leading and controlling and Mnitzberg’s the roles of a manager divide by interpersonal relationship, the transfer of information, and making decision. (Robbins & Coulter, 2012). All managers in the organizations like Marketing, R&D, Manufacturing, Human Resources, and Finance must have both structures. They make plans of goal and strategies to succeed, and organizing. Then they lead and control their members to accomplish goals. Furthermore, they have different roles divided their working part or level of positions. Managers...
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...Managers Role In Functional Areas Of Business 1 Managers Role In Functional Areas of Business MGT/521 January 12,2015 University of Phoenix Managers Role In Functional Areas of Business 2 According to University of Phoenix MBA overview, businesses have eleven areas within the company that play a major role with its overall success. (University of Phoenix). Without these functional areas working symbiotically, the business would most likely not be able to operate at its fullest potential, and it would ultimately not succeed. Each functional area is important and offers a very specific objective to ensure the organization’s success but what is more important than these functional areas of business is the manager, the person behind the scenes making sure that all of these areas of a business and the employees are operating to the best of their ability in order to make the businesses a success. “Managers perform certain activities or functions as they efficiently and effectively coordinate the work of others (Robbins & Coulter).” In this paper I will discuss three of the functional areas of business management, human resources and marketing and what role a manager plays in that functional area of business. Management...
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...1 Laura Driver Ascension Health Course Research Project South University Principles of Management 2 I selected “Ascension Health” as my final project. As follows are the questions to this assignment. Questions: 1. Describe the manager’s functional role in the organization. 2. Explain expectations of the role. 3. Evaluate how the manager fulfills the expectations of the role. 4. Explore the different types of planning in your assigned reading. Explain what specific planning challenges you think this manager might face on a day to day basis. 5. Provide examples. 6. Compare these planning challenges to a manager in a similar position 25 years ago (1987). Background Ascension Health is considered the largest nonprofit health care in the United States. Therefore, there is many positions from doctors to staff members throughout all the facilities in the country. Ascencion Health has two systems that help them to plan, organize and control their data from Patients that come in for treatments to billing. They have web portals, nurse navigators, and hospitals programs.” In order for me to describe the manager’s functional role of this organization website, in which remarks that technical Managers are responsible for managing all infrastructure, performance and availability of all technology devices in the organization's set-up. 3 At Ascension Health, their operating model guides them on the better way to make decisions, they work together, which...
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...Functional Areas of Business: The Role of a Manager While career seeking, many occupations may come to one’s mind. Many will go through great heights to reach their goals, life-long dreams, and accomplish them. Education is the key source for accomplishing those goal. It can be thought of as a prerequisite to greater links to one’s future. While thinking over my own career path, I have come to terms that I have spent majority of my work life in the Human Resource field. What better way to broaden my knowledge by advancing my career into Business Administration? Knowing that I would have to take my education to another level, I sought out a master’s degree in that field to get a better understanding of what I do but at a higher level. When speaking in terms of business, one needs to also think about management. In this passage, the roles of a manager in a functional area of business will be discussed. Though it is evident that all managers’ roles will not be the same, it all depends on what level they are managing. For this discuss, we will discuss the most common fundamental traits that all managers must possess such as leadership, organizational skills, and planning. Leadership A manager is a leader who leads from the front and not the back. Subordinates look to their leader for guidance, reassurance, and knowledge. The manager must be able to provide all of those things. They are counselors in the workplace standing ready to stabilize emotions, solve problems, and guide...
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...The Roles of Managers in Functional Areas of Business Maureen Glidewell MGT 521 1/30/14 Shirley Fitzgerald Managers are a key element in the operation of any business or organization. The success of any business is going to depend on managers and the employees that they manage. While different types of business will dictate different job functions for a manager, all managers will have the same fundamental roles, planning, organizing, leading and controlling, in whatever functional area of business they are working. The most important role that a manager plays in any functional area of business is that of planning. Planning in a business involves setting goals and formulating strategies to meet those goals. Planning is necessary at any level of management and provides a roadmap for the organization to follow to meet the organizations goals in the most efficient manner. A manager is responsible for taking the goals of the organization and providing direction to the employees to meet the goals in the most efficient manner. Anticipating areas in the business that may hinder the organization from meeting its goals is a vital activity for managers and key to keeping employees productive. Proper planning will help to keep the business running efficiently and effectively and give purpose to the organization. (Thorn, 2012) Planning will reduce uncertainty as external forces that may affect the business have been taken into account during planning. Proper planning by management...
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...Manager Role within Functional Areas of Business Fernando Franco MGT/521 June 1, 2015 Natalie Casale ROLE OF A MANAGER WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF BUSINESS The role of a manager can be one of the most challenging jobs ever in existence. A manager’s role is to perform within the functional areas of a business. A business has different components that make up the organization; these are usually Finance and Accounting, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing, Production, Human Resources, IT, and Distribution. The role of a manager in each of these components that make up a business is to to balance out the environmental factors while effectively performing the four functions of management within each of them which are; planning, organizing, leading and controlling. In order for a manager to be successful he or she has to embrace and understand the management role. Robbins and Coulter (2012) defined a manager as “someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people so that organizational goals can be accomplished” (p. 6) ROLE OF A MANAGER WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF BUSINESS A manager must understand this definition in order to perform effectively the four functions of management. By mastering the four functions of management a manager creates an environment where the employees can perform at there very best potential. A business...
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...Week 13 Case Questions 1. Explain a surgical team as a kind of functional group. What features does it share with most functional groups? What features distinguish it from most functional groups? So if I was to explain a surgical team as a functional team it would have to be this: The doctor accesses the patients, the nurses reassess the patients and confirm what the doctor are doing with them and then the anesthesiologist does the same, so everyone knows that they are on the same page. They all confer with one another to come to a positive outcome to any procedure or project they are attempting. Whereas other groups are just trying to satisfy a customer, surgical teams are having to put their reputations and jobs on the line for their profession. 2. Explain a surgical team in terms of its role structures. What factors might lead to role ambiguity? To role conflict? To role overload? Role Structures: Dr.-Head of surgical team, Surgical Nurse – Pain Management and Dr.’s assistant, Anesthesiologist- pain management Role ambiguity- When one or more are doing practically the same job and neither knows what the other is doing. Role Conflict: When the Dr. is telling the nurse one thing, she/he miss understands tells the anesthesiologist something else. Role overload- When one or more of them think they know more about the procedure than the other and they are not capable of doing more than there job. 3. Explain how surgical team...
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...Human Computer Interaction Contents 1:Human Computer Interaction .....................................................................................................1 2:User's Classification Based on Literacy .....................................................................................1 2.1:Functional Illiterate .....................................................................................................1 2.2:Absolute Illiterate .........................................................................................................1 3:Interfaces for Absolute Illiterate...................................................................................................2 3.1:Visual Aids..............................................................................................................2 3.2:Audible instructions. ...............................................................................................2 3.3:Easy Navigations.....................................................................................................2 3.4: Text Free User Interfaces. ......................................................................................2 3.5:Combination of Visual and Audible instruction......................................................3 4:Recent Works for Illiterate ..........................................................................................................3 4.1:SmartPhone Application for Farmers ....
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...Role of a Manager within the Functional Areas of Business MGT/521 10/12/2012 Carlton Robinson Abstract According to the University of Phoenix MBA Overview Module (n.d.), there are 11 functional areas of business that managers play an important role. However, for the purposes of this paper, we will focus on in my opinion the four major functional areas of a business (management, human resource, finance and marketing) that managers play a key role, regardless of the company size. Each line of business have specific duties and responsibilities, however, they all come together to work for the success of the company. Management Management is the practice of coordinating and overseeing the work of others so that organizational goals can be accomplished. Managers ensure business success through efficiency and the effective use of employees, the business's most important resource (University of Phoenix, n.d.). Managers are the first line of defense to interpret the culture and atmosphere management wants to present to the business as a whole. In addition, they must provide the tools and resources to employees for the company to accomplish the goal’s management has implemented. If the goals are not being performed employees have to work with management to address the changes and make corrective actions to maintain positive stability in the business environment. Human Resource Managers use Human Resource management throughout the employee life cycle, including hiring...
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...Role of Managers within Functional Areas of Business Business organizations are broken down into smaller functional areas. These functional areas include: marketing, human resources, finance and accounting, and sales. Each of these areas requires a manager to oversee the success of the area. “A manager is someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people so that organizational goals can be accomplished” (Robbins & Coulter, 2012, p. 5). The role of a manager is crucial to the success of a business. There are differing levels of management, beginning with first-line managers all the way up to top-level managers according to Robbins and Coulter (2012). First-line managers tend to be production supervisors and oversee the operating areas of an organization. Mid-level managers tend to be store or district managers and oversee the first-line managers. Top-level managers tend be executive or financial officers and oversee the mid-level managers. Marketing is how business organizations communicate with their potential customer base. In order for marketing to be successful, a marketing manager must oversee the ideas of the marketing staff and select the best idea or two to attract customers. Marketing managers must have an idea of their customer’s needs as well as their marketing staff’s abilities. Combining these two areas to find the best marketing strategy for their company is what makes a successful marketing manager. Human resources is an area of business...
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...Case Study American Electric International 1. Whose responsibility is it to staff the office? Because this is a matrix system, those in charge of the functional groups are responsible for assigning staff from their department to the project staff. While the project manager is in charge of guiding and monitoring the project, authority over the staff lies with their functional managers. 2. What should be Glen Carty’s role, as well as that of Dr. Runnels? As the director of project management, whoever the project manager is selected to be will report to Glen Carty. Dr. Runnels is the department head of the engineering functional group. He is responsible for assigning staff to the project and holding authority over them. Dr. Runnels should take into sincere consideration for Glen Carty’s request for staff, but it ultimately Dr. Runnels who must decide who to staff the project with. 3. Should Larry Gilbert be assigned? I think it is clear that Larry Gilbert should not be assigned. In the matrix system where the functional managers control the staff, not the project manager, it is critically important to have a good working relationship with functional managers in order to be able to negotiate for resources. Larry Gilbert clearly does not have that relationship and Richard Flag does. Richard has also proven himself when it comes to managing projects and developing positive relationships with the client and inside staff by being transparent and cooperative. Richard Flag...
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