What do Managers Really do?
In the past few months, we’ve been studying the organization and the people who lead them. It is known that managers handle their subordinates in a corporate setting. Each manager has different types of function to smoothly accomplish the company’s goal. We have the top manager, middle manager, and first line manager. The top manager is usually the head of the organization and his right hand is the middle manager, who relay the goal of the company to the first line manager who are divided specifically to certain areas they excel. The first line managers accomplish the task they are given for the good of the company.
Mainly these types of managers have the same functions. They all plan, organize, lead, and control. The top managers plan the goals to be accomplished for a certain period of time. The middle managers supervise the first-line managers in planning the actions to be taken to accomplish the goals of the company. The top manager leads in a sense that he try to set a good example to his subordinates and motivate them to accomplish their jobs. The middle manager makes sure that the planned goal will be accomplished within the time frame set by the company. The first-line managers take charge of their groups in accomplishing their task and try to incorporate each fulfilled tasks with one another to accomplish the goal. The top manager control the group by taking the risk of making decisions if a certain plan did not work the way it should be. The middle manager controls the collaboration of different work group of the first-line managers. The middle manager should motivate his subordinates to give out their best in the task given to them and work hard for it, for the good of the company.
I learned these things in our class, however I’m really not sure if these topics are applicable nowadays. We are asked to interview a manager in an industrial setting to know if the ‘Management process’ we’re learning inside the classroom is accurate with the fast pace life of the industrial setting. Read more…