1.3 Managers and their roles


The role of managers is to guide organizations toward goal accomplishment. All organizations exist for certain purposes or goals and managers are responsible for combining and using organizational resources to ensure that their organizations achieve their goals.
Management moves an organization toward its goals by assigning activities that organization members perform. If the activities are designed effectively the productions of each individual worker will contribute to the attainment of organizational goals.
Management strives to encourage individual activity that will lead to reaching organizational goals and to discourage individual activity that will hinder the accomplishment of those goals because the process of management emphasizes the achievement of goals, managers must keep organizational goals in mind at all time.