Leadership in Action: Critical Evaluation of Manager and its Practices

Leadership in Action

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................3
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Critically evaluating manager and its practices.........................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................. 6
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Managers take responsibility to perform various function in a company like distributing
resources according to requirement, providing directions to different activities and
implementing decisions to achieve the organizational objectives. The present case scenario is
based upon critical evaluation of personal understandings of what it means to be manager.
Report will provide insights about academic theories related to management along with
examples.
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Critically evaluating manager and its practices
A manager is a person who manages or assists people in organization to achieve their
goals and objectives. He works within business by communicating strategies to his team
members and explaining how to achieve it (Ali and et.al., 2020). Good manager needs to keep a
perfect balance between employees needs and aspirations & business objectives.
First of all, manager should be able to lead his team by taking a decision as to which
project to take or which tasks to be assigned. He can become a role model for his team or
instilling culture values, motivating others to perform efficiently and effectively. Secondly, he
can provide training and mentorship to employees develop certain skill sets that will help
employee to grow and in turn will increase company productivity. Lastly, managers are the
representative of his team, that is, he is responsible for making his team work towards
attainment of organizational goals by avoiding any conflicts and issues (Gardner, 2020).
There are various management theories concepts that serves as guidelines at the time
of framing policies and strategies (Cristofaro, 2020). One such theory is of Henry Fayol who
developed Principles of Administrative Management to examine a business by stating that
managers have major responsibilities of organizing, commanding, controlling, co-ordinating and
planning. Keeping in mind these responsibilities, he gave 14 principles to motivate managers to
lead teams. These principles were related to like division of work, mangers must be able to give
orders, discipline should be followed, fair remuneration to employees, equality among
employees, motivating employees to come up with innovative ideas, promoting team spirit, etc.