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(Why) Do we Need Managers?
santiago, HR Consultant, Angola, Member
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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Managers are Needed
MARTIN, Turnaround Manager, Kenya, Member 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 esse...
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Why We Need Managers
Niranjan Chatterjee, Researcher, India, Member Managers are not there to get involved hands-on in the processes of an organization.
They are there to coordinate and lead without which any orga...
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Why do we Need Managers??
Deepesh Kaveeshwar, Manager, India, Member Manager are role models.
They can lead as well as manage the task with the help of growing trends in management education. Now especially in Ind...
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Why do we Need Managers
santiago, HR Consultant, Angola, Member I think you need to read the whole statement - specialist are needed and we need those that can lead, but they need not be managers, managers need to ...
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Why do we Need Managers?
gloria edem kuetsinyah, Ghana, Member We need managers so that organizations can meet it goals and objectives. Without a leader a team cannot be productive enough....
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Why do we Need Managers
Nitin Thakur, Manager, United Kingdom, Member @ Santiago:
Your raise a very valid point, something as someone who moved from an engineering (specialist as yo...
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Why Managers are Needed
Margaret Kilonzo, Manager, Kenya, Member We need managers to give direction if people are not led there would be total chaos.
Imagine everyone doing want they want or think is right. It ...
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Of Course we Need Managers
Olumide Oni, Manager, Nigeria, Member We cannot underestimate the importance and role of managers in organisational processes. They are no doubt an expensive layer, however, they are also ...
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We Need Managers
Tengue Felix, Student (University), Ghana, Member @ Olumide Oni : Sister, you are right, without managers organizational goals and objectives would not be realised, t...
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Yes do we Need Managers... and Specialists
santiago, HR Consultant, Angola, Member Well we do need leaders and someone or a team who sees the big picture, who has the broad perspective, to allow specialists to do great work.
Man...
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Fayols Management Roles
Phillip Baka, Student (MBA), South Africa, Member Yes as Fayol said we need managers to plan, organise, command, coordinate and control the organisation. ...
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Why do we Need Managers?
pinar Basaran, Turkey, Member I agree that we need managers in order to plan, organise, coordinate and control the organisation but I think "command" has become a wrong word in mod...
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Reducing Hierarchy
santiago, HR Consultant, Angola, Member @ Pinar Basaran : That is so true and with that the non value adding bureaucracy which reduces initiative and creati...
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(Why) Do we Need Managers?
Daniel Griffith, Teacher, United States, Member I think there needs to be an understanding on this issue that there is a difference between leaders and managers. A leader, to me, is a specialist wit...
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Leaders and Managers
David Wilson, Manager, Canada, Premium Member I am not sure we should be separating the role of leaders and managers. In one organization where I worked we asked all managers to be leaders. It see...
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Leaders or Managers?
santiago, HR Consultant, Angola, Member David, you are of course right, leaders are not separate from managers they have overlapping roles, and this should be recalled in our governance mode...
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When Managers are not Needed
Jorge Garrido, Director, Mexico, Member Managers are not needed if you work in a high culture organization, where everybody has the right training and the goals are clear. You can reduce a l...
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It Depends on Employees
Divyani bhansali, Student (University), India, Member If everyone can manage themselves properly, then there would be a low need for managers. If really the employees need supervisions and guidance, then ...
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Oh Yes. We Need Managers!!!!
Biju T A, Professor, India, Member Have you ever noticed the difference between laser and ordinary light? The laser is well arranged with synchronised movements of photons and this stru...
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When we Still Need Managers
Egessa, Accountant, Uganda, Member To win in the a new world, organisations need inspirational leaders, not just managers. With the growth of technology in each and every processes of p...
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Managers versus Leaders do we Need Them
santiago, HR Consultant, Angola, Member Think about the manager as the facilitator, the steward who makes the details work, (s)he looks after the daily stuff people need.
While <...
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Outdated Arguments?!
Monteiro, Consultant, Portugal, Member Hi everyone, in fact, managers should be leaders, but they may be not...
As said before, a leader is someone who has followers, and there are ma...
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Why we Need Managers
Elisha Simon, HR Consultant, Nigeria, Member @ Santiago: in answering this question, we need to know what a manager is. A manager, simply put, is a person who - ...
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Do we Need Managers?
Jorge Garrido, Director, Mexico, Member Leaders are normally needed, but if you train your organization like a real team you can make it work as an independent, autonomous team, where people...
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Why do we Need Managers
Edna Rotich, Kenya, Member A story is being told of two rowing teams:
- Team A had one manager and six rowers
- Team B, had six managers and one rower.
Obviously ...
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Specialists, Leaders and Managers - what a Mess
Monteiro, Consultant, Portugal, Member Hi Everyone, this discussion turned into a "mess". We started discussing "no need for managers" and it should have stopped there. Managers are needed,...
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Why we Need Managers
halima Sheikh, Kenya, Member @ Santiago: We need managers in an organization because employees need some direction, organizing and a basic sense ...
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Why do we Need Managers
irawan sugito, HR Consultant, Indonesia, Member What we need today is leaders, not managers. Too many managers did not do their roles e.g. managing, developing, evaluating people and their contribut...
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Why do we Need Managers
vasumathi, Management Consultant, Zambia, Member All managers are not leaders, you can't teach leadership, it's something an individual should possess. We need sensible managers who have the capabili...
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Principles of Management - Fayol
Amar Deep Seetohul, Manager, Mauritius, Member A manager should lead in a way that the people led do not even notice they are being led... He should form part of the team both officially and on a p...
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Why do we Need Managers
Popovic Zeljko, Manager, Slovenia, Premium Member There is a difference between a ''real'' manager and the leader. The question is reasonable, if we have both of them in company but we can not recogni...
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