3.2 – Discussion: Managerial Roles
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Mintzberg on Managing
Duration – 10:18
Henry Mintzberg is a management education guru best known
for his categorization of managerial roles. Watch Mintzberg on Managing to
learn more about the evolution of management education from Mintzberg’s
perspective. Then, read Rounding Out the Manager’s Job (Links to an external
site.) to learn more about managerial roles and how those roles cannot reside
in a vacuum. Mintzberg over the course of 160 articles and 16 books has proven
to most that management is a practice and that management education must build
on practice to be of any real value.
With this in mind, think about a recent manager. Without
naming names, discuss how this manager managed using Mintzberg’s managerial
roles as a framework and whether or not you feel this manager was “well rounded”
based on the preceding article. Explain how this manager could improve and
become more “well rounded”. Also include what this manager did well. Include
observations about the managerial environment. Did this manager face any
organizational barriers to success? Did the organization’s culture facilitate
successful management?
Please begin your discussion with 2-3 substantive paragraphs
connecting your thoughts to the material you just read. Then, comment on the
experiences and observations of two other students
Note: If you need a distraction, read the online version of
Mintzberg’s hilarious opinion of aviation in his work titled The Flying Circus.
(Links to an external site.) This is not a class requirement, but it’s quite
entertaining.
