Most roles in management are utterly useless. What is their role?
Planning:
- Setting goals and objectives for wider organization and teams
- Developing strategies to achieve those goals and objectives
- Development of an action plan and timelines
- Allocation of resources in support of those plans
Organizing:
- Designing origanizational structure
- Defining roles and responsibilities
- Establishing clear lines of communication
- Ensuring organization has the resources and infrastructure
Leading:
- Inspiring and motivating employees in the organization
- Communicating effectively
- Building strong alliances and relationships
- Making decisions to solve problems
- Providing guidance and support
Controlling:
- Monitoring progress towards goals and objectives
- Measuring performance against standards
- Identifying deviations for corrective actionable measures
- Evaluating effectiveness of organization
Other Aspects:
- Interpersonal: building relationships, networking, maintaining reputation, representing the organization
- Informational: gathering, analyzing, spreading correct information for decision making
- Decisional: making decisions to solve problems and providing resources
- Efficiency and Productivity: proving effective and streamlined processes, reduce waste, improve productivity
- Employee Satisfaction: create positive work environments, motive employees, and foster supportive and inclusive work culture
- Organizational Success: setting clear goals, decision making, adapting to change, contributing to success
In essence, management is about getting things done through people. This essentially shows that AI can pretty much replace most managerial roles. Management should be the first point of redundancies when an organization does not do well. In future, we hope to see less management in organization and flatter structure within employees. The role of a manager is pretty much pointless. Why bother hiring a manager and wasting valuable organization funds. Most human managers do not achieve even 10% of their role. AI could make the manager role significantly more efficient and productive for an organization while empowering employees. And, you won't even have to provide them any monetary compensation. The biggest wastage of funds in any organization is management. Another aspect to this is the role reversal. Make managers accountable to employees. And, when things go wrong managers should be the first ones out the door as they failed at their role.
