This document discusses the role and responsibilities of managers in organizations. It defines management as a set of activities including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources to achieve goals efficiently and effectively. The manager's primary job is to carry out the management process of planning and decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling. Managers at all levels and in all areas of an organization must fulfill roles like figurehead, leader, and liaison. They also require skills such as technical, interpersonal, conceptual, diagnostic, communication, decision-making, and time management. The nature of management work involves uncertainty, change, interruptions, and fragmented activities. A manager must lead and motivate employees to put forth their best efforts.