UNDERSTANDING MANAGER'S ROLE

Understanding manager's role and developing skills



Table of contents

Introduction3

Selected Organisation3

Organisation Purpose3

Organisation's Structure4

Organisational Stakeholders5

Functional areas6

Functions to manage and implement strategies6

Functions of marketing6

Functions of finance and accounting6

Functions of human resources6

Managerial roles7

Role of middle managers in the accomplishment of goals7

Affect of interpersonal relationship and communication skills on managerial performance7

Communication and interpersonal relationship barriers8

Strategies to remove barriers of communication and interpersonal relationship8

Exploration of a crucial issue9

Research Topic9

Reasons for choosing this topic9

Literature Review9

Barriers in cross-cultural communication10

Research Methodology12

Procedure13

Results14

Discussion14

Conclusion17

Personal Reflection and Action Plan18

Current Position18

Future goals18

Plan to accomplish future goals19

Reference20

Appendix23

Introduction

Selected Organisation

The organisation that I selected to perform this assignment is my own organisation where I work. It is a not for profit organisation that works to improve the life of children.

Organisation Purpose

The ambition of this organization is to improve the life of children by providing them aid so that they can combat with the issues of poverty, they provide them shelter and guidance on how they can protect themselves from different sorts of abuses and they make provisions so that each child can get access to quality education and health care facility. Their aim is to serve for the betterment of lives of children without any discrimination; they serve at federal, states and even at the level of communities. Nonprofit organizations are officially recognized in the U.S. tax code by their placement indicated as 501(c). The Nonprofit organizations designated as public charities carry the subcategory number 501(c)(3). These are organizations with the mission to improve the common good in areas such as education, the environment, health care, the arts, community development, assistance to individuals and families, and all of religious activity.

The definition posited at the outset of this chapter is insufficient to capture many distinctive features of Nonprofit organizations in the United States. Salamon (1999) defines a Nonprofit organization as one that has a formal charter of incorporation, regular meetings, officers, rules of procedures, and some degree of organizational permanence. These organizations are private, self-governing, and voluntary, and they do not distribute profits. This definition includes important features of formally organized Nonprofit organizations but it does not accurately describe many small, loosely knit associations.

The Nonprofit sector is composed of all types of Nonprofit organizations, including small, unincorporated groups and associations with few members and little to no budget; large and formally incorporated organizations with hundreds of paid staff members, cadres of unpaid volunteers, and budgets exceeding millions of dollars; and those that fall somewhere in between. The number of Nonprofit organizations in the United States includes “1.8 million registered organizations and several million other associations, including support groups, book clubs, and neighborhood action committees” (O'Neill, 2002, p. xvii); estimates by the Independent Sector in 2005 put the number of registered organizations closer to 1.9 million

Organisation's Structure

The structure of a Nonprofit organization varies based on size, purpose, government laws, and organizational bylaws that govern the organization and appointments to its board of directors. Nonprofit organizations are typically private organizations that are governed by a board of directors or trustees who do not receive ...