Essay - Management Challenges the Role of Managers in Implementing Management Changes...

Management Challenges

The role of managers in implementing management changes for the 21st century

The dynamic nature of management in ***** twenty-first century developed with the emergence ***** new technologies and *****novations, which has radically changed the kind of management and leadership prevalently used at present. Literature on ***** ***** for the 21st century emphasized ***** the importance of managers in the organization, centering its role as the mediator between organizational members and management. Indeed, researches and studies on the subject have found that managers play an integral role in fac*****g ***** challenges and implementing the changes ***** occur in ***** midst of an information-oriented and technology-driven society.

In this paper, a discussion of ext*****nt literature concerning the important role ***** managers and the challenges ********** face at ***** are analyzed in the organizational ***** paradigm. This paper posits that extant ***** on management stresses the ***** of ***** ***** acting as mediators and implementers ***** change in the organizational setting, particularly in 'bridging' the communication and social interaction between the management and the organization's members in light of a new organizational change or innovation.

Both qualitative and quantitative ***** in ***** have demonstrated ***** significance of managers in introducing ***** implementing changes within the organization. Perry (2004), in his quantitative and comparative study about the level of employee trust between managers of private and public sector ***** verifies one of ***** most important theories in management, which posits that leaders and managers who ***** most accessible and closer ***** relation to employees or *****ganization members tend to be more *****ing. This is also reflected by the fact that managers who ********** higher positions in the organization, ********** creating greater distance between themselves ***** the ***** or employees, have relatively lower levels of employee trust as compared to those who interact with the employees constantly. Exemplified in Perry's ***** is the example of the municipal fire department's case, wherein they have high levels of trust for their CEO despite his being a *****-ranking officer. However, the reason for ***** high level of trust, the author explicates, is because ***** ***** constant interaction and communication of the fire department's ***** with the ***** members, ***** especially the firefighters.

A similar thrust is expressed in ano*****r study, ***** ***** the qualitative ***** ***** illustrate how, in ***** present time, middle managers have assumed the role as "change agents" apart from being mediators and implementers of innovation in the organization (Balogun, *****). Emphasis on the role of ***** managers is given in the study because ***** are in an especially strategic position to act as a media*****r for the org*****ization's management and members. The middle manager's access to both high- and low- positioned ***** ***** the organization makes him an effective medium through which ***** and ***** is accomplished between the two groups. ***** qualitative study, which used the methods of c*****e study, in-depth interviewing, and focus group discussions (FGDs) is ***** vital to the implementation ***** change in *****al structures, ***** be*****g