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- Role of First line managers (FLM)
- Importance of FLMs
- Problems of FLMs
- Support for FLMs
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Hutchinson, S. (2017, June 29). What is “first line management”? [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved August 31, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/KFTN6250.Export Citation (RIS)
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Hello and welcome! This is Sue Hutchinson.
The title of my talk today is "What is first line management?"
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One of the reasons I want to talk to you about this body of managers,
is that my research and that of others has shown that
first line managers are critical to the success of organizations.
In particular, it is these managers who can
have the greatest influence on employee attitudes,
and the way employees behave at work.
Yet, their importance is often overlooked in many organizations today.
What is a first line manager?
These are managers at the lower levels of management.
Generally at the first level,
to whom non-managerial employees report.
In a traditional organization,
these managers would report to a higher level of management,
usually middle managers, as shown in this diagram.
Generally, these first line managers are responsible for the operational,
day-to-day running of a work area, rather
than having responsibility for strategic matters.
They could be engaged in general management work but could also be specialists
in a functional area such as marketing, finance, sales,
or HR. These managers are known by a variety of names, for example team leader,
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supervisor, foreman, front line manager,
junior manager, shop floor manager,
group leader, or project manager.
The size of teams these managers are responsible for varies enormously.
It can be as few as one or two employees,
or in larger organizations,
these managers may have 40 or more employees reporting to them.