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Boundary-Spanning Roles in Management: Functions, Importance, and Strategic Application

Explores boundary-spanning roles in management, their strategic importance, and their function in organizational success.

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    Boundary - Spanning Roles in Management: Functions, Importance, and Strategic Application Q1. - Describe the ways managers use boundary - spanning roles and why they use them. (300 word minimum). Answer – The boundaries may be used to define the characteristics of an organization and the link between environment and organization may be defined as boundaries role. The boundary spanning leadership may be defined as the capability to establish direction, alignment, and commitment across boundaries in order to achieve a higher vision or goal. This capability resides within and across individuals, groups and teams, and larger organizations and systems. In the structure of boundary roles, the attention is given to environment and technology sources of variation. All levels of management must have this capability of boundary spanning and it has been found that in different survey that 97% of leaders cited boundary spanning is important at senior level, 91 % at the middle level, and 43% at the entry level. According to Aldrich and Herder, there are two distinct functions of boundary - spanning roles: 1. I nformation processing and 2. E xternal representation of the organization to outsiders. In networking, the Boundary spanning plays an important role . The effective boundary spanning activity is needed by the Small and medium sized enterprises which are concentrated on the foreign market . In these enterprises the men who can be seen as the central boundary spanner is known as manager and he maintains all the internal and external networks of the enterprise. The managers should establish the relationship or link between boundary spanning activity and

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