Managing

The study of management also helps you to communicate with and interact with people every day, make personal plans and decisions, set goals, and prioritize.

There are three levels of management: top, middle, and first-line managers. The three levels relate to each other as described below.

Ten roles managers play
Managers have a set of distinct roles. A role is a set of expectations of how one will behave in a given situation. Henry Mintzberg identified ten roles that managers embody as they accomplish management functions. They are: figurehead, leader, liaison, monitor, disseminator, spokesperson, entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator.

The four management functions are: Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling.

Reference:
1. Lussier, R. N. (2006). Management Fundamentals, (3rd ed.). Thomson.
2. Robbins, S.P. & Coulter, M. (2005). Management, (8th ed.). Pearson-Prentice Hall-New Jersey.
3. Schermerhorn, J. R. (2005). Management, (8th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.