Manager Functions

Manager Functions

Lucien Goode

University of Phoenix

MGT/230

01/18/2015

Manager Functions

        Is better to be a leader, manager or both? What does a company look for in a manager?  There are so many thoughts on what a manager should be, but there is a broad understanding on what the major functions of a manger. Becoming a manager inside a company should not just be able be to strategically a conceptually think in order to obtain a company’s goal.  Leader consist more than just telling people what to do, managers just do not go out and randomly do their reasonability.  Good managers learn how to master the fundamental functions, because being in a manager role a person must lead by example.  

        With the world being so connected managers and leaders must walk a fine line between efficiency and focus on every area of topic. Management features and functions of a leader can be placed into four completely separate functions or parts known as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.  Most individuals only visualize and hear the final two steps leading and controlling.  A good rule of thumb is for every leader feature you do see, there is equal amount that you cannot see. Behind closed doors a good manager spends a great deal of time planning and organizing so that they can carry out the task upon them.  When these skills are even broken down even further they are broken up into two groups which can be consider internal factors which are planning and leading and two are external factors which are organizing and controlling.  

        The managerial function of planning is good because it helps create a detailed action plan targeted at company’s goal.   Planning is a never ending step-by-step process and can be highly effective based on the company’s objective, division, and department goals.  The leaders and managers are the one to realize what goals are needed to be planned within their company.  Once these planes have been developed its time to organize and determine how resources will be spent and organizes others to the plan laid out before them.  This is also the stage where a manager will delegate out authority and assign work, which segments right into leading, now leading is not easy at all.  

Globalization of the world helps bring a part of diversity to a company.  Business the spend the time money to make there company diverse always benefit.  This helps brings different views and a broader perspective, because companies can assess what the needs will be for different people and how effective it will be.   When a person is in leadership role they spend time working on their interpersonal skills with their employees, because someone is a manager it does not mean they are leaders.  A person will follow the direction of the manager because they have to, but an employee will volunteer to follow direction of a leader because they believe in that person  and what they stand for, and what the manager inspires in that person.   Even after all that leading a managers roles is not finished.  Most of the elements are in place, a leader needs to continuously check the reports against their goals and take their necessary action to make sure that the plan stays on progress.  Managers and leaders need reports so that can make good and sound decisions which help towards building there intuition.   All managers’ at all different levels preform these normal functions.  The length of time a leader spends depends on the level a person is in and the company, and a lot of it boils down to their work ethic.