Mintzberg's Manager Roles
This interpersonal role involves a manager counseling, communicating, and directing subordinates.
What is a leader?
These skills involve the ability to work with people and understand employee motivation.
What are human relations skills?
This illustrates that the decision-making process is limited with incomplete information and our capacity to process it.
What is bounded rationality?
According to Drucker, this is more influential than strategy in terms of motivating employees’ beliefs, behaviors, relationships, and ways they work.
What is corporate culture?
This describes an organization's aspirations.
What is vision?
This interpersonal role involves a manager maintaining information links inside and outside the organization.
What is a liason?
These skills involve the ability to work with people and understand employee motivation.
Who are first-line managers?
Generating as many solutions or options as possible.
What is brainstorming?
This profile of an organization emphasizes creating, innovating, visioning the future, managing change, risk-taking, rule breaking, experimentation, entrepreneurship, and uncertainty.
What is Adhocracy Culture?
This describes an organization's strategic purpose for operating.
What is mission?
This informational role involves a manager passing information to subordinates via memos and emails.
What is a Disseminator?
Managers in this role are at the top of the hierarchy and are responsible for the entire organization, especially its strategic direction.
What are executive managers?
Choosing not to voice concerns to keep the peace.
What is groupthink?
This profile of an organization focuses on relationships, team building, commitment, empowering human development, engagement, mentoring, and coaching.
What is clan culture?
This describes what an organization stands for and believes in, and what standards can be used to evaluate and judge it.
What is values?
This decisional role involves a manager representing the management side in negotiations with union representatives.
What is a Negotiator?
ccording to the test bank, managers in this role are at the top of the hierarchy and are responsible for the entire organization, especially its strategic direction
What are technical skills?
This person intentionally takes on the role of critic.
Who is the devil’s advocate?
This profile of an organization emphasizes efficiency, process and cost control, organizational improvement, technical expertise, precision, problem solving, elimination of errors, logical, cautious and conservative, management and operational analysis, and careful decision-making.
What is hierarchy culture?
This refers to when a leader does not perceive ethical issues due to inattention or inability.
What is ethical blindness?
This decisional role involves a manager making decisions about who gets what, how much, when, and why.
What is a Resource Allocator?
These skills include the ability to see the organization as a whole and understand how various parts fit together.
What are conceptual skills?
Paying more attention to information that agrees with existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This profile of an organization emphasizes delivering value, competing, delivering shareholder value, goal achievement, driving and delivering results, speedy decisions, hard driving through barriers, directive, commanding, and getting things done.
What is market culture?
This refers to when a leader can “talk the talk” but does not “walk the talk” on values.
What is ethical blindness?