Roles of Management

Management roles have been grouped into three major groups:

1) Interpersonal roles: which involves the manager collecting and disseminating information to the members of his organization.

2) Informational roles: involve the monitor role, spokesman role and the disseminator role.

3) Decisional role: involves managers spending time selecting certain causes of action, or making decisions that affect the organization. The decisions centre around utilization of resources. Decisional roles include the entrepreneur, problem solver, resource allocator and negotiator.