Four Roles Of Management In An Organization

In any organization, the knowledge of management is very important for a company to succeed. Management by definition means simply getting work done through others that help an organization to accomplish or fulfill its goals as efficiently as possible.

An essential key in management that mostly practices by organizations are planning, leading, controlling and organizing (P.L.C.O). Henry Fayols, a French mining engineer and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called fayolism, introduced these four methods.

The P.L.C.O concepts are ‘staple components (commonly practice)’ for an organization to succeed and play a major role in any business world. To elaborate further how these four key methods

A manager is a person who’s in charge in terms of controlling, managing and administering an organization. A manager is the core of a company and he/she influence all the phases of modern organization, without a manager organizing any kind of organization, it usually led to a chaotic team without any specific orders to follow. Hence, the person must be a dedicated leader with years of experience in the specific field in order to fill up the role.

There are four different kinds of managers. Firstly, top manager secondly middle managers followed by first line manager and lastly team leaders. Top manager is responsible for controlling the organization and hold positions like chief executive officer which known as CEO, followed by chief operating officer as well known as COO, chief financial officer that stands as CFO and lastly chief information officer which were known as CIO.

Each of these managers has different role and responsibilities in an organization. Firstly, top managers have to create a context for change in the organization. This means they (manager) have to come up with something new in their company, for example, “Nokia Company” (communication company) were a hit back then. Their gadgets (mobile phone) were highly demanded in the past before other advanced gadgets were

The positions first line manager holds are office manager, shift supervisor and department manager. First line managers responsibilities are to monitor employee’s performance on producing company’s goods and services. They are the only manager that does not supervise or monitor other manager like what middle manager does. Apart from that, first line manager also monitor, teach, encourage and reward the performance of the employees.

The last kind of manager is team leaders. Team leader by definition means a person in a group, who is in charge in leading, taking certain actions when performing a group task. Their responsibilities is to simply taking care of his/her team members, accepting members opinion, to identify and solve problems/conflicts within a team in order to achieve an effective and reliable team.

For example in a sales team member, say they were grouped into two groups consist of sales team A and sales team B. Sales team A members find it difficult to work together with the other team (sales team B), they began to criticize each others quality of works. This is the time for both sales team leaders to stand up and discuss with each other on how to solve the conflicts between their team members, sales team leader duties is to get both team members agree and come up with the same conclusion so that they can work together to achieve the main sales