Managerial Activity Analysis via Mintzberg's Role Theory: The Effects of Person and Organizational Variables

摘要

The Research Objectives were: (1) To use Adcock's modified activity sampling methodology to detect the role behavior of practicing government/military managers -- (a) To verify that government/military managers do act in all eleven (Mintzberg's ten and Adcock's subordinate role) and to estimate the proportion of time spent in each role and thus verify that Adcock's methodology detects all eleven roles; and (b) To determine the contribution of four organization variables examined by Adcock to the variability in how the government/military managers distribute their time in roles. (2) To detect differences between private (Adcock's sample) and government/military managers regarding their role behavior; (3) To determine the contribution of selected organization variables, person variables, and combined effects to the total variability in how government/military managers distribute their time in roles.