Importance of managers in organizations

Introduction

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Organizations are social groups which aim to achieve their objectives and goals. In
addition, organizations exist everywhere with a number of different legal entities
such as governments, international organizations, charities, corporations,
universities, partnerships and so on. These organizations are operated in both the
private sector and the public sector (Murphy & Willmott, 2010).
To operate organizations effectively, management is important at many stages in
order to reach the goals. In other words, organizations are difficult to be successful
without good management. Therefore, management is important to organizations
as it helps in the planning, leading, organizing and controlling in context within an
organization.
This essay will attempt to critically evaluate if organizations do need managers and
its benefits for the organization or if there can exist an alternative beneficial
methodology. It will demonstrate some examples in order to give a broader idea on
how this would work out in an organization.
Main Body
Organizations need managers because they can help the company running
effectively and efficiently, especially manage employees (MSH, 2001), and play a
key role in both organizations and management (Broos & Cronje, 2009). The
importance of managers to begin with, is that they evaluate employees work and
check it, whether they do it right or not. To be more specific, Managers are who
have power to use reliable resource and manage people to achieve the business
goals through different ways of management (Principles of Management MGT,
2010). It is important to evaluate and give feedback for employees work, by doing
this they can know what they should do better and what are the benefits they
provide. In this process, managers should communicate with their labour to build
leadership between managers and employees. This is done in order to organize
them and lead them in right and effective way (MSH, 2001). Consequently,
managers should not only support them but also train and encourage them. It is
requires managers to help employees coach, assist and solve the problem. For
instance, some of them may have emotional and personal problem; managers have
to check their attitudes anytime and their work conditions. Therefore, the reason
why managers have to help employees do the work in the right way is because the
better work conditions are, the more effective staff do. Nevertheless, Company can
be able to not have managers and make everyone be equal. More specifically, if the
employees working condition is more equal, there is a harmonious working

environment. For instance, the staffs would not want get a higher and go under a
high stress atmosphere, because all employees will have same position this would
make workers pay greater attention in their work. As results, the company can get
outstanding achievement. [there is] A positive example is done by Alexander Kjerulf
AKA, who is an IT company founders and a best-selling author. Most people tend to
call him, the chief happiness officer. He claims, the employees should be happy at
work and under an equal working environment. In his company, everyone is equal.
It fact, the three founders will also not have more powers and they are equal with
other employees. Another example is done by Semco a Brazilian company which
believes in non hierarchal organization but a circle one (Semler-HBR, 1989). This
consist on having only counselors, head partners , coordinators and associates on
each division, which helps on the organization of employees, and the trustworthy
between them. However these counterarguments does not take into consideration
that this only applies on some stereotypical organizations such as IT companies but
not for most of the variety of organizations.
Another argument is that managers know how to motivate employees and can
encourage them to work harder. It is important for managers manage peoples
attitude towards work, which helps the total work atmosphere within the business.
Managers understand that positive attitude leads to high productivity for the work,
and they also know that they have to achieve their goals through employees. Thus,
managers have several ways to encourage their workers by increasing workers
salary, giving out rewards, more recognition, opportunities for learning, promotions
and more. They observe their workers and give rewards to good workers in order to
encourage them (Gaynor, 2004, p95). For instance, increasing salary is common in
most firms to encourage their workers by managers. The more work employees do,
the more money they get. In this way, the personnel work effectively for more
money. Unlike banks, schools, large public companies, managers choose a number
of best workers to award them at the end of a year (Deeprose, 2007, p69). It can be
seen that managers can manage peoples attitude to reach their objectives more
effectively for the organizations. However, according to Semler (1989) in Semco
they let anyone do whatever they want to do, to be more explicit because they are
very strict with their financial methodology, they let their employees create their
own environment. This has work for them as the employees create a more valuable
relationship with the organization, giving more importance to its improvements by
realizing its profitability and performing according to this.

A good leadership from management can give as a result that the organization
operates well, according to The Times 100 (2011), a majority of UK corporation

focus on develop managers leadership skills, this can make managers more
confident to address the relationship between employees and managements.
Moreover to make management more effectively hence, it is important in current
changing world to have a good leadership both internal and external environment
(MSH, 2001). For example, some popular diseases influence peoples work
conditions who are worried about that they would get the illness, managers should
take care of them and do some coordination to help them work in relax way. (MSH,
2001) Furthermore, training can promote the employees positive attitude towards
work, as well as making easy to control human resource which motivates the work
interesting and enthusiast to help the improvement of self value, which is
effectively and efficiently to achieve business goals. On the other hand, the
organization also has an alternative choice of not having a manager who is also the
leader. A leader can be someone who is not the manager; in fact it is possible that
there would not be a manager at all. According to Marting &Fellenz (2010: 197), a
manager focuses on doing the things right and a leader focuses on doing the
right things, so what is best for the organization? Someone who helps the
employees achieve the goals or some who uses pressure on it. Semler (1989) states
that in any organization or in any type or work there should not be point out a
leader, because this creates conflict within the personnel, and that if in the same
case but from the beginning they are just let work together a leader will come out
by its own, creating a more reliable environment.
What is more, organizations need managers to make some important decision such
as decide the policy and plan the work. Planning is very important at the beginning
of the work as it is fundamental for a business. Moreover, it is also a manager
process concerned with organizational performance (Daft, 2010, p141). Managers
usually carry out a marketing plan or a business plan to meet the goals. Workers
cannot plan themselves as there will be disagreement and much conflict among
them. Therefore, it is managers responsibility to plan the work, give out different
work to different employees and tell them what to do in order to achieve the
objectives (Martin, 2005, p20). For instance, if the objective of the organization is to
increase sales of their products, managers would do some steps to improve the
situation. At first, the manager will identify the current situation of the products in
the market, then find out the target market and develop a plan such as increasing
advertisement and promotion to improve sales. Therefore, managers are important
to organizations for making decisions and plans. Having said this, when the staffs
have a motivation to do the work they will try harder to do achieve the goals (Martin & Fellenz,
2010). To be more precise, according to Kjerulf when every employee is offered to be a stake of
the company and most employees are given an equal chance to join the process of the day to
day decision making. For that reason, employees will try the best to do their work because they

take the responsibility of the tasks. In other words, as the workers can choose the tasks they
like, it shows the employees capacity and get better results. Therefore, as a result of an equal
condition in company, the output will be more productive. This counterargument fail considering
that this fact can be affected by the different personalities of the personnel, as this might affect
its performance and with this the organization outlook.
In addition, managers also take responsibilities to address any out coming
problems. Managers should decide what their staff should do and predict some
mistake they might do; and even though the employees make mistakes and
problems, it is the responsibility of managers to deal with them. Therefore, personal
values and skills can be improved in this process, which can reduce the boss or
directors stress (Hemingway & Maclagan, 2004). Additionally, in occasions
managers are also able to use management skills within organizations (Witzel,
2004), to do some difficult part like finance, accounting in other words, they should
estimate the cost of materials and plan how to use it without waste, this helps the
organization to operate outstandingly and achieve goals effectively. This is why
organizations need managers. On the contrary, Semler (1989) argues that when he
chose not to have managers or any kind or hierarchal position and everyone was
paid the same. Semco as an organization manage to afford the implementation of
new learning techniques, such as giving classes to its employees who were more
than pleased to learn new skills, finance or accounting, and use them within
working concepts (ibid). He states that many other companies in the United States
have tried to do the same but they have not being success as they have to take
care about the high wages of another entities who are in charge of the finance or
others external aspects of the company (Semler, 1989). So this proves that
organizations may success if they take into consideration the overly paid wages to
different skilled employees, when they can make every one equal, save some
money and invest it in other projects.
Conclusion
To conclude, this essay has attempted to look at the importance of a manager in an
organization, by analyzing both sides, its necessity in an organization and those cases that they
might not be necessary as there can exist some alternative choices. It can be seen that
mangers are important to organizations as they can not only manage peoples attitude but also
evaluate employees work. In addition, they also motivate workers in effective ways and train
them to adapt to their work, decide some important decision. However, to some extend not
having managers can also be beneficial for some organizations, as each employee star to care
more on their individual responsibilities, but it is necessary to have a leader. Therefore, in a
general context, the existence of a manager can be crucial as far as it is train also to be a
leader and might even not have a hierarchy over other employees. Moreover, that there is a

possibility of mixing both features of being a leader and being a manager in order to gain the
best not only for the organization but also for the employees. This can be understood as that a
leader manager has focus on doing the right things in order to do the things right.

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