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Top level manager Management
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| 2.5.1 Top level manager Management: The term top level management includes the corporate officers that are elected by the board of directors. They have job titles like chairman of the board, president, executive vice-president, general managers and their deputies. Top-level managers are concerned primarily with major direction of the enterprise they are chief policy-making officers of the organization. They are concerned with the organization as a whole and interaction with the environment. Top managers establish organizational goals, decides on how departments should interact and monitor the performance of middle level managers. Functions of top level managers (a) Determining company objectives b) Working out long-range planning c) Establishing board policies d) Coordinating enterprises activities e) Adapting effective means of control f) Authorizing new facilities and launching research and development projects. g) Appointing top level officers. 2.5.2 Middle level Management Middle level managers are above the supervisors and below the top managers, they report directly to the top-level managers. The various Departmental heads, such as heads of functional departments and the managers of technical and staff units Finance, production, marketing, personnel and purchasing managers, chief engineer, plant manager and operational managers, etc. The principal task of the middle level management is to manage managers to act as buffer between the top managers and supervisor. Middle level managers spend most of their time analyzing data, preparing information for decision-making and translating top level overall policies and strategy 64 into operational policies, procedure and methods of work. They spend most of their time in committees, mostly with peers and in their departments. Functions of Middle Level Management (a) Integrating the activities of the different work groups b) Preparing plans and programmes for departments or divisions. c) Taking appropriate actions to execute plans d) Assisting top-level managers in executing their functions. e) Communicating management policies f) Transferring information and materials between different work groups. g) Managing and controlling activities of low level managers h) Coordinating enterprises activities i) Providing information that will assist top level managers in decision-making. Download 3.37 Mb. Share with your friends:
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