ACCA Applied Knowledge · Business and Technology · Leadership, management and supervision
A finance director presents the company's results to a meeting of external analysts and answers their questions on behalf of the board. Which Mintzberg role is primarily being performed?
The finance director is acting as spokesperson, an informational role in which a manager passes information to outsiders on behalf of the organisation. Monitor involves collecting information, and negotiator involves bargaining to reach agreement, neither of which is the main activity in presenting results.
- ASpokespersonCorrect
- BMonitor
- CNegotiator
Explanation
The spokesperson role is an informational role where a manager transmits information to people outside the organisation on its behalf. The monitor role is about gathering information, and the negotiator role involves bargaining to reach agreements.
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