What are the three categories of managerial roles?

Interpersonal

Figurehead: Symbolic head, obliged to perform a number of routine duties of a legal or social nature.

• Queen of England

Leader: Responsible for the motivation and activation or subordinates; staffing, training and associated duties.

• Richard Branson

Liason: Maintains a self developed network of outside contacts and informers who provide favours and information.

• Liason Manager with industry and govt to keep abreast etc

Informational

Monitor: Seeks and recieves a wide variety of special information (much of it current) to develop a thorough understanding of the organisation and environment; emerges as the nerve centre of the orgs internal and external info.

Disseminator: Transmits information recieved from outsiders or subordinates to members of the org, some of it factual, some of it requiring interpretation, interrogation.

Spokesperson: Transmits information to outsiders about the orgs plans, policies, actions, results. Serves as an expert on the orgs industry.


Decisional

Entrepeneur: Searches the org and environment for opportinuties and initiates improvement projects to bring about change.

Disturbance Handler: Responsible for corrective action when the org faces important, unexpected disturbances.

Resource Allocator: Allocation of org resources of all kinds, approval of all significant org decisions.

Negotiator: Reps org at major negotiations.