Management Roles
As a manager, you probably fulfill many different roles every day.For instance, as well as leading your team, you might find yourself resolving a conflict, negotiating new contracts, representing your department at a board meeting, or approving a request for a new computer system.
Put simply, you're constantly switching roles as tasks, situations, and expectations change.
Management expert and professor, Henry Mintzberg, recognized this. He argued that there are ten primary roles or behaviors that can be used to categorize a manager's different functions. In this article we'll examine these roles, and we'll see how you can use your understanding of them to improve your management skills.
The Roles
Mintzberg published his Ten Management Roles in his book, "Mintzberg on Management: Inside our Strange World of Organizations," in 1990.The ten roles are:
Figurehead.Leader.
Liaison.
Monitor.
Disseminator.
Spokesperson.
Entrepreneur.
Disturbance Handler.
Resource Allocator.
Negotiator.
