Answer to Question #178077 in Management for suleman

Question

“The manager’s most basic responsibility is to focus people toward performance of work activities to achieve desired outcomes.” What’s your interpretation of this statement? Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

Answer 1

This statement is indirectly referring to the fact that encouraging staff members to increase their output is a manager's most important task. I disagree with this statement, there are a lot more responsibilities for a manager that are basic, these include;

• conduct performance evaluations and troubleshooting performance issues.
• motivating staff to put their best efforts into their work.
• responsible for hiring and training employees.
• monitor expenses and budgets in relation to the projects they are overseeing.
•  oversee day-to-day operations.