Question

Instructions:

Quite often, I have heard many people say that "a managers job is simply to tell people what to do." I sometimes wonder if that is true! Hey, I just thought of a great idea. Instead of just wondering if that statement has any validity to it, let's just ask a manager.

Your task for this week is to interview a manager.  It can be a present or past manager or someone whom you have never worked with. You may choose any organization you wish - perhaps one in which you or a family member/friend have worked. Feel free to choose a for-profit or not-for-profit organization. Below is a list of questions to help get you started.

• What are their responsibilities?
• What is their managerial hierarchy level? How many people do they report to directly?
• What is the most challenging part of their job?
• How many of the four basic management principles do they use? (planning, organizing, leading and controlling)
• What is their managerial span of control?
• How important to their job are technical, conceptual, interpersonal, and communication skills?
• What is their primary leadership style? Does that style work for most situations or do they sometimes use a different approach?

Once you have completed your interviews, develop a summary of your findings that includes:

• A brief summary of the organization and its purpose (you may withhold the name if you wish).
• A description of the industry in which the organization exists (list major competitors if appropriate).
• A description of the manager and his/her position within the organization (withhold the name).
• Your paper should include: Two (2) Full Pages, Typed, Double Space, Font Size 12- Times Roman, MLA Format with a Minimum of (2) Cited Sources.

Your thoughtful input should reflect application of concepts studied in this module, and should reflect proper use of English grammar, spelling, punctuation, word usage, sentence structure, and paragraph structure.

Answer 1

Name: XYZ

Name of the organization: ABC

Industry: Education

That organization is some what similar to a Online and Offline tutorial centre.

Designation: Sr Manager (CA)

He is the Senior Manager is that Department and He is one of the 2 higher official in that organization leaving their MD. He is with that organization from past 10 years.

1) Responsibility: He is the Accountant of that organization where all money decision will be taken by him like investment, salary payment and important thing dealing with money.

2) Hierchy level: He will directly report to his MD as he is also one of the higher official. Most of the decision he will take and approve and anything that he cannot approve he will go to his MD.

3) Challenging part of Job: Month End and Every Financial year end he have to stay and see that everything is done correctly as his work deals with money. Most of this time he will come home very late sometimes he may not even come home till next morning.

4) He will all basic principles as any new development in the company is done by all these 2 official collectively ,so they will plan and organize any event or activity.

He alone should lead a team of 6 more people who are his juniors and he has all comtroc over fianacial activities of that company as he is the signatory authority of any financial activity.

5) All these officers will control the entire office as their MD will be in another place.

6) As he is the Financial authority technically conceptual wise he should be strong and he also should have interpersonal and communication skills to deal with his colleagues and business partners.

7) Depending on the situation the approach changes , If it is the same thing which they deal dialy or monthly than same approach they will use.