What do managers do? How important is managerial leadership for the running of effective organizations?

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Name: Xiaochao Peng (BA. IBFE. 1st year)

Tutorial Group: 18 (Monday, 13.00-14.00)

Topic: What do managers do? How important is managerial leadership for the running of effective organizations? (non-assessed)

A manager is a person who plans, organizes, directs, and controls the allocation of human, material, financial, and information resources in pursuit of the organization's goals. The many different types of managers include department managers, product managers, account managers, plant managers, division managers, district managers, and task force managers. What they all have in common is responsibility for the efforts of a group of people who share a goal and access to resources that the group can use in pursuing its goal. An important responsibility of managers such as Laing is to ensure that their groups understand their goals and how achieving their goals is related to the success of their organizations. Saatchi & Saatchi's primary goal is to "make clients' brands famous." While achieving that goal, the company also has the goal of making its own name famous. It achieves these goals by producing excellent advertising for its current clients and by attracting new accounts (Brodin, 1997). The purpose of this essay is to talk about what the