Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Time and task management are major challenges for every manager.
2. According to Mintzberg, the three broad types of managerial roles include interpersonal, analytical, and critical. 
3. Good executive functioning includes heavy multitasking and answering every e-mail nearly instantly. 
4. The monitor function is an example of the informational roles often played by managers. 

Answer 1

1. TRUE
It is clear from Mintzberg's work that both time and task management are major challenges for every manager.
2. FALSE
From his observations and other research, Mintzberg concluded that managers play three broad types of roles or "organized sets of behavior": interpersonal, informational, and decisional.
3. FALSE
Executive functioning includes the ability to focus your thoughts, control your impulses, and avoid distractions. You can drive yourself crazy trying to multitask and answer every e-mail message instantly. Or you can recognize your brain's finite capacity for processing information.
4. TRUE
In their three informational roles as monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson, managers receive and communicate information with other people inside and outside the organization.