Health administrators' 10 managerial roles in promoting healthy communities, minds, and bodies

Health administrators can perform important roles to create healthy communities and promote healthy minds and bodies. Various models and perspectives may be used to conceptualize, define, and examine these roles. One useful approach is to apply the model of 10 managerial roles developed by management scholar Henry Mintzberg. He identified 10 distinct roles in 3 groups. The Interpersonal Roles are figurehead, leader, and liaison. The Informational Roles are monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The Decisional Roles are entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator. This presentation defines each of these 10 roles. Then it explains how each role can be applied to create healthy communities and promote healthy minds and bodies. Specific examples in the presentation demonstrate how each role can be performed for this purpose. The 10 roles are timeless and universal enough that they are applicable for practicing administrators, leaders, and managers in a wide variety of health care organizations and communities.