THE MANAGER’S JOB and MANAGING YOURSELF summary
I chose Andrew J. DuBrins book “Essentials of management”. I will talk about managers job, what management means, what responsibilities management requires and how to manage yourself.
This book tells us how much manager job is really important. Without management, little gets accomplished because managers are the force that makes things happen. They pull together resources to get important things accomplished. These words were told by Smokey Travis, plant manager.
So let’s start with manager’s job. How we can describe “manager” and “management”? A manager is a person responsible for the work performance of one or more persons and who can commit organizational resources to get the job done. Management is the process of using organization resources to achieve specific objectives through the functions of planning and decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling. Although these two words seem similar, the term management also refers to a field of study, a group of people running a firm, or a career field.
There are three organizational levels, which let us understand more about manager’s job: Top-Level managers, Middle managers, First-Level managers and individual contributors (such as operatives, they perform the basic work of the organization but aren’t involved in planning or managing the work, and specialists – highly skilled workers who perform specific tasks). Individual contributors also may hold higher-level positions. There are several useful ways of classifying managerial jobs: line managers versus staff managers, functional (specialisies within the firm) versus general managers, and administrators (managers in nonprofit firms), entrepreneurs (those who start an innovative business), and small-business owners.
Managers conduct their work in an organization, which is a group of two or more people