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Roles and skills of administration

 Organization and direction of human and material
resources to achieve desired ends
 Direction, coordination an control of many persons to
achieve some purpose or objectives
hat is Administration?
(Pfiffner and Presthus)
(LD.White)

hat are administrative skills?
 Qualities that help you complete tasks related to
managing a business
 involve responsibilities such as filing paperwork,
meeting with internal and external stakeholders,
presenting important information, developing
processes, answering employee questions and more.

y are administrative skills importan
 Due to they keep business processes running smoothly
 Any successful, efficient organization should have
both administrative professionals who have strong
skills in this area, as well as individual contributors
who have good administrative skills.

 Organization
 Communication
 Teamwork
 Customer service
 Responsibility
Examples of administrative skills

 Having an organized workspace, computer and calendar can help
you complete administrative tasks in a quality and time-efficient
manner.
 Administrative professionals might also be in charge of
organizing supply closets, filing systems, processes and more.
Organization

 A crucial skill to have when performing administrative tasks
 To communicate processes and information to others, respond
clearly to questions and requests and more
 To use various types of communication including verbal,
nonverbal, written and visual communication
Communication

 Strong teamwork skills can help you when collaborating on
administrative projects, developing a new process,
communicating and putting a new process into place or
delegating tasks.
 Being a good teammate includes practicing empathy, humility
and being a good communicator.
Teamwork

 In administration, it is common to answer questions for others
or perform certain tasks that others are unable to do
themselves.
 These responsibilities can be performed well with
strong customer service skills which include active listening,
setting expectations and communication.
Customer
service

 Tasks related to administration are often important to keeping
a business running efficiently.
 Having the responsibility to complete tasks on time and in a
quality manner without much oversight is crucial.
Responsibility

 Responsibilities involved managing your
time wisely is a key skill
 Maintaining calendar, planning time to
complete tasks and setting proper
timeline expectations - all parts of being a
strong administrator
Time
management

How to improve administrative sk
 Improving your administrative skills can help you to have a
stronger work ethic by completing tasks in a punctual and
quality manner while working well with others.

Tips consider when working on your
administrative skills:
Set personal career goals
 Setting specific, measurable goals to increase some or all of the
above administrative skills can help you improve over time.
 It can help to meet with trusted friends, colleagues or mentors to
identify areas of improvement to determine which skills you
should prioritize

Get organized
 Organization is an important part of being a good administrator.
Take time to make a clean, organized workspace for yourself
that can help you prioritize tasks, manage your time well and
respond quickly to others who need the information you have.
 If you have a colleague or manager that has strong
administrative skills that you find effective, try adopting their
practices in your own work. For example, if you find that their
style of note-taking is especially helpful, you might also
practice taking notes in this way.
Mimic other strong administration skills

Skills of an Effective Administrator
An administrator is one who
 directs the activities of other persons and
 undertakes the responsibility for achieving certain objectives
through these efforts.
 Successful administration appears to rest on three basic skills,
which are technical, human, and conceptual
(Katz,1974)

 implies an understanding of, and proficiency in, a specific kind of
activity, particularly one involving methods, processes,
procedures, or techniques.
 relatively easy for us to visualize the technical skill of the
surgeon, the musician, the accountant, or the engineer when each
is performing his own special function.
 involves specialized knowledge, analytical ability within that
specialty, and facility in the use of the tools and techniques of the
specific discipline.
Technical skill
(Katz,1974)

 perhaps the most familiar because it is the most concrete, and
because, in our age of specialization, it is the skill required of the
greatest number of people.
 Most of our vocational and on-the-job training programs are
largely concerned with developing this specialized technical skill.
Cont.;
(Katz,1974)

 executive’s ability to work effectively as a group member and to
build cooperative effort within the team he leads
 primarily concerned with working with people and demonstrated
in the way the individual perceives (and recognizes the
perceptions of) his/her superiors, equals, and subordinates, and in
the way he/she behaves subsequently.
 aware of his own attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs about other
individuals and groups; he is able to see the usefulness and
limitations of these feelings.
Human skill
(Katz,1974)

 Human skill is so vital a part of everything the administrator does,
Examples -
 Inadequate human skill are easier to describe than are highly
skillful performances.
 Perhaps consideration of an actual situation would serve to clarify
what is involved:
Cont;
(Katz,1974)

Conceptual skill involves
 the ability to see the enterprise as a whole
 recognizing how the various functions of the organization depend
on one another
 how changes in any one part affect all the others
 extends to visualizing the relationship of the individual business
to the industry, the community, and the political, social, and
economic forces of the nation as a whole
Conceptual skill
(Katz,1974)

Cont;
 Success of any decision depends on the conceptual skill of the
people who make the decision and those who put it into action.
For example,
When an important change in marketing policy is made, it is
critical that the effects on production, control, finance, research,
and the people involved be considered.
(Katz,1974)

Relative Importance of three skills
At lower levels
 Technical skill has greatest importance at the lower levels of
administration.
 Human skill seems to be most important at lower levels, where
the number of direct contacts between administrators and
subordinates is greatest.
At the top level
 Conceptual skill becomes increasingly critical in more
responsible executive positions where its effects are maximized
and most easily observed.
At higher levels
Human skill
Conceptual skill
(Katz,1974)

Implications for Action
 This three-skill approach implies that significant benefits may
result from redefining the objectives of executive development
programs, from reconsidering the placement of executives in
organizations, and from revising procedures for testing and
selecting prospective executives.
(Katz,1974)

Technical skill
 Development of technical skill has received great attention for
many years by industry and educational institutions alike, and
much progress has been made.
 Sound grounding in the principles, structures, and processes of
the individual specialty, coupled with actual practice and
experience during which the individual is watched and helped by
a superior, appear to be most effective.
Developing the Skills
(Katz,1974)

To be effective, he/she must develop his/her own personal point of
view toward human activity, so that he/she will
(i) recognize the feelings and sentiments which he brings to a
situation;
(ii) have an attitude about his own experiences which will enable
him to re-evaluate and learn from them;
(iii) develop ability in understanding what others by their actions and
words (explicit or implicit) are trying to communicate to him;
and
(iv) develop ability in successfully communicating his ideas and
attitudes to others.
Human skill
(Katz,1974)

 Conceptual skill, too, must become a natural part of the
executive’s makeup.
 Different methods may be indicated for developing different
people, by virtue of their backgrounds, attitudes, and
experience.
 In every case that method should be chosen which will enable
the executive to develop his own personal skill in visualizing
the enterprise as a whole and in coordinating and integrating its
various parts.
Conceptual skill
(Katz,1974)

Effective administration depends on three basic personal skills,
which have been called technical, human, and conceptual.
The administrator needs:
sufficient technical skill to accomplish the mechanics of the
particular job for which he is responsible
sufficient human skill in working with others to be an effective
group member and to be able to build cooperative effort within
the team he leads;
sufficient conceptual skill to recognize the interrelationships of
the various factors involved in his situation, which will lead him
to take that action which is likely to achieve the maximum good
for the total organization.
In summary (Effective
administration )
(Katz,1974)

 Vital and varies from organization to organization.
 Necessary skills or responsibilities are all the same in different
organizations.
 One of the most common and significant duties of an
administrator needs to have a good set of skills so that he/she can
manage a team of people who can handle any situation within the
organization.
 Excellent communication is one of the most important key
ingredients for an administrator.
Roles of Administrators

Five Key Roles of
Administrators
(1)Leaders cultivate institutional development,
(2)mentors facilitate employee development,
(3)managers ensure institutional integrity, deciders provide
alignment,
(4)builders expand the capacity of the students, the employees
(5)organization thus bringing us full circle to a new stage of
development.

Five Key Roles of
Administrators
 The five roles identified are the means by which values direct
processes to foster empowerment.
 All administrators are expected to have a level of proficiency in
each of the distinct roles.

1. Leaders Cultivate Institutional
Development
 Administrators are expected to set the direction for the institution
as a whole or for their department as they align their work with
that of the institution.
 role as one with a kinesthetic feel as people are asked to move
from one state of being to another to a new order.
Kouzes and Posner (2002)
(Senge, 1994)
 A role requires strong skills in environmental scanning,
listening to critical stakeholders, anticipating future conditions,
and providing a mental model

2. Mentors Facilitate Employee
Development
 A key role of an administrator is to mobilize individual
commitment of other employees via a mentoring relationship that
requires a mindset of servant-leader.
 Leadership implies that leaders primarily lead by serving others:
employees, customers, and the community. Such service is
realized through mentoring relationships that require good
listening, honesty, empathy, and encouragement while challenging
performance.
Greenleaf (2002)

Cont.;
 set high standards of performance
and provide ongoing assessment that
leads to the professional and personal
growth of the mentee
 provide a strong perspective, are
professionally accessible to share
relevant experiences and are willing
to take significant risks to support
the right type of advocacy for the
mentee
Mentors

3. Managers Ensure Institutional Integrity
 Administrators strive to do things right themselves and assure
that those responsible to them do so as well. Skills are applied to
those things that require controls.
Warren Bennis (2001)
 Three categories of things needing control:
 money (costs, information, and time),
 structure (systems, processes, and inventory),
 physical resources (facilities and tools)
 Application of these skills in an effective and efficient manner
leads to an institution’s integrity as there is evidence of
responsible functioning.
Stephen Covey(2004)

4.Deciders Provide Alignment
 need to make decisions that allocate scarce resources against an
organization’s objectives, set priorities, and design work to
achieve results.
George Weathersby (1999)
 Administrators gain credibility and trust when they insist on
good data for making decisions and are able to consistently
demonstrate fairness in how decisions are made.
 Very skilled administrators who have honed this role are able to
make the tough decisions which may not be popular; they are
respected for the strength demonstrated in making the decision
while using strong analytical skills and assuring honesty and
fairness.

5. Builders Expand Capacity
 The two skill sets most important to building both human and
organizational capacity are those that pertain to the ability to be
a good team member, and having the expertise and generosity
of spirit to serve as consultant.
 Clearly most work cannot be done alone.
 Team membership has routinely come to be seen as one of the
core competencies for college graduates as it is expected in most
workplaces today; it leads to higher productivity, critical
thinking, problem-solving, social interaction, self esteem, etc.

Table1-depicts the outcomes that can be anticipated when one of the roles is
markedly deficient

 The five roles identified for quality administrators require very
different skill sets and abilities.
 Most administrators will not automatically have proficiency in all
five roles; however, because they need to be able to move readily
from one role to another,
Concluding Thoughts
 Administrators need to have a good understanding of each, as
they engage in self-assessment, develop their own growth
plans, and form teams that can work collaboratively and
optimally.

Few of the most important roles of an
administrator
 Planning and Organizing
 Directing
 Staffing
 Liaison
Vina Prajapati(2020)

 Planning is the most vital task of an administrator. It is a
responsibility for him/her to plan long-term objectives that can
help the organization to reach its ultimate goal.
 To execute these plans and get success is again a big
responsibility.
 Professionals need to analyze that how, when, where, and with
whom the plan should be made and executed accordingly.
 Organizing is again equally important, which lets the
administrator coordinate the efforts of a business to reach heights
of success.
Planning and Organizing

 Leading the employees to attain the main objective of the
organization needs the amalgamation of resources and an
effective support system.
 An interpersonal skill is essential as he/she needs to interact and
deal with people with different personalities.
 An efficient administrator will use the potential of the workforce
to make the plan work as a set.
includes -entrustment of authority
-accountability
-control to other administrative teams.
Directing

 The administrator must interact and coordinate with other
departments of the organization, including the human resource
department.
 Not only the HR department but the admin department, too,
actively take part in the recruitment and screening process.
Staffing

 An efficient administrator is a liaison between employees and
management.
 The admin team understands the need for the employees as well
as the management and hence plans things accordingly to meet
their demands.
 It helps to maintain a balance in the organization and also to keep
a positive environment free from conflicts.
 It is the sole responsibility of an administrator to take care of the
expectations and performances of each individual.
Liaison

According to Mintzberg, divided into three categories:
 Interpersonal
 Informational
 Decisional
Henry Mintzberg’s10 Managerial Ro

Henry Mintzberg’s10 Managerial Ro

 link all managerial work together
 primarily concerned with interpersonal relationships
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 represents the organization in all matters of formality
 Top level manager represents the company legally and socially to
those outside of the organization
 Supervisor represents the work group to higher management and
higher management to the work group
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 It defines the relationships between manger and employees
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 manager interacts with peers and people outside the
organization
 top level manager uses the liaison role to gain favors and
information, while the supervisor uses it to maintain the
routine flow of work
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 ensure that information is provided.
 primarily concerned with the information aspects of managerial
work.
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager receives and collects information about the operation of
an enterprise
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager transmits special information into the organization
 Top level manager receives and transmits more information from
people outside the organization than the supervisor
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager disseminates the organization’s information into its
environment
 Top level manager is seen as an industry expert, while the
supervisor is seen as a unit or departmental expert
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 make significant use of the information and there are four
decisional roles
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager initiates change, new projects; identify new ideas,
delegate idea responsibility to others
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager deals with threats to the organization
 Manager takes corrective action during disputes or crises;
resolve conflicts among subordinates; adapt to environmental
crisis.
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager decides who gets resources; schedule, budget set
priorities and chooses where the organization will apply its
efforts
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 Manager negotiates on behalf of the organization
 Top level manager makes the decisions about the organization as
a whole, while the supervisor makes decisions about his or her
particular work unit
Pardeep Kumar(2015)

 A community development administrator coordinates plans,
manages, and a community's economic, social, and physical
growth.
 must provide information and assistance to both public and private
developers
Required Skills
 Successful community development administrators must have great managerial
and communication skills, allowing them to develop solid relationships with
their employees and the public.
 Community development administrators also must be strong decision makers
and have the foresight to create long-term plans.
Summary and Recommendations
(Roles of Administrator)

Vina Prajapati(2020), Education Carrer Tips, What is the role of An Administrator An
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Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. (2003). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and
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Covey, S. R. (2004). The 8th habit: From effectiveness to greatness. New York: Simon &
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