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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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(Why) Do we Need Managers?
Why do we need managers? They are a layer of cost and add no real value, so why do we have them? Most specialists left their field to be managers and usually hate it and perform at lower levels than in their previous roles.
What if we reduced managers to stewards and facilitators and paid them like other specialists - would this help?
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MARTIN
Turnaround Manager, Kenya
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Managers are Needed
I read your comment on managers with a lot of consternation. The truth is that we need managers who also double up as leaders in their roles. The essence is that managers help units pull in one direction using the corresponding communication channels. Managers also enhance the spirit of responsibility and shorten the required time in delivery.
Take the situation in Africa for instance. We have plenty of resources, but we lack prudent managers in the name of leaders. Hence the continued under utilisation and proliferation of poverty.
A case in point is Nigeria with massive oil resources, but not fully utilised to create capital and avert biting poverty.
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Niranjan Chatterjee
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Why We Need Managers
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Deepesh Kaveeshwar
Manager, India
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Why do we Need Managers??
Manager are role models.
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Why do we Need Managers
I think you need to read the whole statement - spe (...)
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gloria edem kuetsinyah
Ghana
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Why do we Need Managers?
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Nitin Thakur
Manager, United Kingdom
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Why do we Need Managers
@Santiago:
Your raise a very valid point, somethi (...)
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Margaret Kilonzo
Manager, Kenya
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Why Managers are Needed
We need managers to give direction if people are n (...)
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MARTIN
Turnaround Manager, Kenya
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Specialists versus Managers
@Nitin Thakur: I note your perspective in regard t (...)
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Olumide Oni
Manager, Nigeria
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Of Course we Need Managers
We cannot underestimate the importance and role of (...)
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Tengue Felix
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We Need Managers
@Olumide Oni : Sister, you are right, without mana (...)
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Yes do we Need Managers... and Specialists
Well we do need leaders and someone or a team who (...)
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Phillip Baka
Student (MBA), South Africa
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Fayols Management Roles
Yes as Fayol said we need managers to plan, organi (...)
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pinar Basaran
Turkey
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Why do we Need Managers?
I agree that we need managers in order to plan, or (...)
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Amar Deep Seetohul
Manager, Mauritius
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Should we Reduce the Role of Managers?
@Martin: We need managers to fulfil the pivotal ro (...)
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pinar Basaran
Turkey
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Reduce Hierarchy - Not the Role of Managers
We should reduce hierarchy instead of reducing the (...)
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Ajay Nagariya
India
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We Need Leader as Manager... not Just a Manager
We need managers who can lead a team by example, a (...)
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Reducing Hierarchy
@Pinar Basaran : That is so true and with that the (...)
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Daniel Griffith
Teacher, United States
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(Why) Do we Need Managers?
I think there needs to be an understanding on this (...)
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Why do we Need Managers
@Daniel Griffith: I like what you added, and yes i (...)
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Dali Horeshka
Business Consultant, Albania
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Manager Have a Brokering and Facilitating Role
@Daniel Griffith: You are right. That is the role (...)
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David Wilson
Manager, Canada
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Leaders and Managers
I am not sure we should be separating the role of (...)
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Leaders or Managers?
David, you are of course right, leaders are not se (...)
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Monteiro
Consultant, Portugal
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Why we Need Managers... Who else would Manage Otherwise?!
One reason: they are the one's who achieve goals, (...)
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Jorge Garrido
Director, Mexico
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When Managers are not Needed
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Divyani bhansali
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It Depends on Employees
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Biju T A
Professor, India
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Oh Yes. We Need Managers!!!!
Have you ever noticed the difference between laser (...)
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Egessa
Accountant, Uganda
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When we Still Need Managers
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Managers versus Leaders do we Need Them
Think about the manager as the facilitator, the st (...)
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Biju T A
Professor, India
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Difference between Managers and Leaders is Outdated
@Santiago: it is matter of what we believe and wha (...)
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Monteiro
Consultant, Portugal
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Outdated Arguments?!
Hi everyone, in fact, managers should be leaders, (...)
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David Wilson
Manager, Canada
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Leaders and Managers - There is no Difference!
@Biju T A: thank you. I agree that a leader needs (...)
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Elisha Simon
HR Consultant, Nigeria
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Why we Need Managers
@Santiago: in answering this question, we need to (...)
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Jorge Garrido
Director, Mexico
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Do we Need Managers?
Leaders are normally needed, but if you train your (...)
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Edna Rotich
Kenya
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Why do we Need Managers
A story is being told of two rowing teams:
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Tebogo Lebodi
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How do we Combine the Qualities of both the Specialists and the Managers?
@Santiago: I agree we see most specialists underva (...)
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santiago
HR Consultant, Angola
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Specialist versus Managers
@Tebogo Lebodi: great questions Tebogo.
1. We nee (...)
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Elarbi oussama
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Managers May Cost too Much Comparing Their Productivity
I totaly agree. Thank you.
Just look at the gap o (...)
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Monteiro
Consultant, Portugal
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Specialists, Leaders and Managers - what a Mess
Hi Everyone, this discussion turned into a "mess". (...)
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halima Sheikh
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Why we Need Managers
@Santiago: We need managers in an organization bec (...)
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irawan sugito
HR Consultant, Indonesia
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Why do we Need Managers
What we need today is leaders, not managers. Too m (...)
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vasumathi
Management Consultant, Zambia
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Why do we Need Managers
All managers are not leaders, you can't teach lead (...)
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Amar Deep Seetohul
Manager, Mauritius
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Principles of Management - Fayol
A manager should lead in a way that the people led (...)
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Popovic Zeljko
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Why do we Need Managers
There is a difference between a ''real'' manager a (...)
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