Roles of Managers and their Challenges. Management Book Report (Book Report Sample)

Roles of Managers and their Challenges
Student’s name
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Executive summary
This report has been prepared so that it can provide insight to future managers and students pursuing the management field on what is expected of them when running an organization and the challenges which they are likely to encounter. The report identifies the roles of managers as well as challenges they face in firms by analyzing the experience of a manager from Aldi Company who participated in an interview.
This paper critically discusses the roles of a manager such as planning, coordinating allocating of resources and decision making and the like. It also explains the challenges managers face such as conflicts in the organization and copying up with new changes. It also outlines other crucial lessons learned from experience. The report concludes by emphasizing that all roles of managers are interrelated and one has to practice all of them for successful management of an organization. The paper suggests approaches that managers should embrace to address the challenges they face.
Table of Contents
1 Executive summary…………………………………………………………….….………2
2 Introduction……………………………………………………………………...…...…4
3 Literature review………………………………………………………………………......4
4 Firm background……………………………………………………………………..........6
5 Operations………………………………………………….......……………………….…6
* Roles of managers…………………………………………………………………6
* Challenges facing managers………………………………………………………8
* Lesson learned from the experience……................................................................9
6 Conclusion and recommendation………………………………………………………...10
7 References…………………………………………………………………………...…...11
Introduction
This report has been inspired by the desire to equip the future managers and students in the field of management with skills and knowledge of managing organizations effectively. The report seeks to achieve this by exploring the roles of a manager and the challenges they face and possible ways of addressing the challenges. The main aim of this report is to provide insight on business management issues to the students as future team members and managers. This will be achieved through systematic discussion and explaining in detail the roles of managers and the challenges they face as per the information collected from interview and literature review.
The paper will begin by discussing the roles of the managers, then the challenges facing the managers and also other lessons learned through experience. After that, it shall provide a conclusion concerning the discussion and recommendations to the issues encountered. The paper majorly focuses on the roles of the managers and the challenges they face because they are crucial to effective management. There are other issues which are relevant for managers to put them into consideration and they are covered as the lessons learned from experience. Only affairs of managers are the major concern in this report.