Managers and Process Management

Do you know what managers are supposed to do…..? Well the immediate answer you will be getting is "They are supposed to manage" and would go in to elaborate as functions of management which is Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling. Thus application of functions of management in to any area that a manager is given for management is what managers are supposed to do. Well understood I guess.

One of the major requirements for managers is to manage the work. If you look at organizations, you will see work everywhere. It seems that stress is inevitable where ever the work is. Stress occurs to people, when work is for people. Hope you agree.

Role of managers starting from the Strategic Management would be to identify the amount of work required by the strategy, and organize the work in a manner that work will be managed using the best structure to obtain results. In fact the structure which comprise of people, are in fact a structure of work. Structure in another way is structured work that is assigned in chunks of manageable size to people.

Essentially, businesses are about conversion processes, value adding processes. Adding value in the market, using structured set of work assigned to people. Starting from the top level, as shown in the diagram manages are supposed to apply the management to this conversion process.

So I argue that a major portion of management should be responsible in Planning, Organizing Leading, and Controlling of processes. Every manager should have the expertise on Planning processes, organizing processes, leading processes, and controlling processes. If a manager attends to "Process Management" properly, they will make their life as well as the lives of people around them far more effective.