Role of the Manager in the organization

Role of Manager in the Organization

Most of the time the Managers in the organization are a confused lot about what there role is. They are more concerned about the micro part of there responsibilities & hence could not concentrate more on the macro aspect of the management responsibility which they have to execute.
Broadly we can divide the role of a manager into two parts.
One is objective & the other one is subjective.
The objective part is basically to run the business in efficient manner. Manager has to ensure that the objective goals of the organizations are achieved. The day to day business is run smoothly & to remove any obstacle which come on the way. This is what comprises the objective role of a manager & most of the time we find mangers are bogged down with this part only. The most important role of a manager is to identify, nurture & groom employees who would ultimately becomes future business leaders of the organization. Most of the managers forget this role & concentrate on running day to day business & are more concerned with increasing profitability for the organization.
There is nothing wrong with the profitability factor but if an organization has to run successfully for maximum numbers of years, it has to churn out leaders all across the organization constantly. In the name of developing leaders most of the managers will take into there shelter few numbers of employee who understand better than other employees what there boss wants. Bosses will provide all the necessary support & back up to these employees so they look good. Once the platform has been created for these employees then eventually they will be promoted . Its human tendency to like the people who talks good about you & who praises you but if a manager wants to be a successful for longer duration, he has to understand "the success of an organization depends on the shoulders of employees who has diverse skills & competencies ". One type of people will not be able to get you success for a long time. they have to develop leaders all across the organization. There is another danger" if you are surrounded by the people who only appreciate your work & never criticizes you then gradually they will be turning you to have a false feeling of supremacy. Ultimately you will be trapped into " I am great syndrome" which will slowly reduce your willingness to learn new things & with the passage of time you will fade into oblivion.
If we want not to happen this we must pay more attention to the macro part of our role as a manager & that’s all about identify, groom, and motivate employees from all spectrum of the organization into a future business leader. This can be achieved successfully by keeping aside your personal likings or disliking & judging the employee on his capacity to execute the job efficiently, his keenness & ability to learn new competencies, ability to perform in a team , his assimilation & understanding of organization culture.
It’s a chain reaction; managers develop people into becoming leader who are directly working under them. They in turn develop people into leaders who are working under them & the process goes down to the lowest level of employee of the organization. How it is being ensured that the process is working?
There are two methods by which organization can find out whether the leadership program is being successfully implemented. One the organization should conduct employee survey periodically from outsize agencies & second to have close tab on employees appraisal card. Both these tools will be immensely helpful to the managers to understand in which direction there organization will be heading. In the last it is his will power & sincerity will decide whether he wants to be a manager only, or for a long period to come he wants to be remembered by his peers as a true leader.

Preach What You Practice

Recognize The Talent

For the success of any Nation, Society or organization , we find talented persons responsible for the success. They work relentlessly to achieve the ultimate goal set by them. If Thomas Elva Edison has not worked tenaciously in the search of electric bulb then our world would have been denied of light. Now days we watched hundred of channels on TV. This was made possible due to continuous hard work by our talented Space scientist who made the satellites.

But do we always recognize talent. No had we then our country would have been the most prosperous country in the world. There is no dearth of talent in our country. The problem is we recognize talent on our preference basis. If the talented person is liked by us then we will recognize otherwise we simply ignore it. A talent wasted is an enormous loss to us & our nation. Some times our ego,caste, community comes in as hindrance in recognizing the talent.

The great example of ignorance & humiliation of talent is the movie Called EK DOCTOR KI MAUT by renowned Director Tapan Sinha. The story of the movie is How a talented Doctor ( played superbly by Pankaj Kapoor) was constantly harassed by the vested interested in the hospital & government. He was not allowed to do the research which he wanted to do in his field. Even his close friend take sides of the evil party & not help him. In the last doctor took the assignment offered by a European country & left India to work abroad with an heavy heart. Whose loss was this. It was a national loss. we have so many cases in real life where the talent is humiliated & discarded because one we feel inferior to them, because caste feeling takes place, Because we does not like the system to be changed. We do all this & then we crib that our country is not progressing. We blame to government that it's not doing anything.

Please think, denial of talent is denial of prosperity. Leave your personal agenda behind, wherever you find Talent, encourage it, recognize it. This way you will be helpful in promoting talent & helping yourself.

My thoughts

Does daily life present opportunities for courage and integrity?



“Why not, Courage does not mean fighting the war on the battlefront. There are so many instances in daily life which provides moment of opportunities for courage & dignity. For example in case i am attending an public forum with one my best friend. There is strong debate on a particular subject & my friend participated in the debate. In case i find his side of explanation weaker then to a stranger to whom i do not know. It is a matter of courage if i make a honest statement that my friend is wrong in his deliberation. Another example in most of the organizations so many times it happens that one finds his boss making irrelevant& unjustified statement on the basis of some preconceived notion. How many of us has courage to face the boss & say , he is wrong. If one does it , it's a matter of courage. Speaking truth is the biggest example of showing courage. So many times we just do not have the courage to speak the plain & simple truth. If one wants it , then there are ample opportunities of putting an example of courage & Integrity. Mind it Integrity is not one time thing, if one Has the integrity , he or she will have it for whole life.