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Leadership in Organizations – Week #4 Assignment
Managing Up
Why is "managing up" important in organizations?
This week’s theory discussed four tactics that enables followers to overcome the authority-based relationship and develop an effective, respectful relationship with their leaders.
Address the following in your paper:
How can you be a resource for your leader?
How can you help the leader be a good leader?
How can you build a relationship with the leader?
How can you view the leader realistically?
What strategy would you use to “manage up”?

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Running head: MANAGING UP
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Managing UP
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MANAGING UP
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Introduction
Managing up refers to utilizing the traits of the best manager to aid in attaining the best in
the workers. It is a concept used whenever direct reporting is done to ensure positive association
and make the supervisor's work easier. The idea forms value for the manager who guides and
gets out the best from the employees. The concept is significant at the workplace as it simplifies
the manager's work of comprehending the correct ways of connecting and communicating with
each other. Such includes showing the care together with meeting performance goals (McLeod,
2021). This paper analyzes the different ways through which an employee could be resourceful
to their leaders, how one can aid leaders to be good leaders, methods of forming relationships
with leaders, and how a leader can be viewed realistically. The paper concludes by looking at the
approaches to manage up.
Ways to be Resourceful for the Leader
There are multiple ways through which one can be resourceful to the leader. The first
way is through embracing the mission of the company. Employees that support the company
mission would be in support of the leader’s directions. The moment an employee sticks and
supports the leader’s instructions and messages, then they become assets for their managers. The
employees...
