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Definitions and meaning of levels of management, top management, middle managment, lower level management.
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gbeatty Teacher
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Posted by gbeatty on Thursday November 6, 2008 at 10:02 AMBecause organizations use different titles, there is no standardized definition of these various terms. However, you might define them as follows:Top Management: The executives, sometimes called "C-level," (as in CEO, CIO, etc.). These are the few individuals of great power and reward who set strategy for the entire organization:
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Posted by james0tucson on Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 12:12 PMManagement structure and definitions of roles, depend on many factors such as the size of the organization, and the type of corporation. In the United States, public corporations tend to have a more rigid structure due to industry practices and legal requirements.
"Top Management" generally refers to the senior executives and the Board of Directors. Employees at this level are often in such roles as part of an ownership stake in the corporation, or by virtue of having had a role in founding the corporation, or other merits of seniority.
"Middle Management" is found in a large enterprise where there is sufficient need for management roles below the "Director" or "Executive" level. The complexity of the business of a departmental organization can be delegated to smaller organizations.
Below this level, managers tend to be in more direct supervisory roles, often with specialized responsibility.
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dharmesh Student
College - JuniorPosted by dharmesh on Sunday November 30, 2008 at 6:38 AM
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krishna-agrawala Teacher
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Posted by krishna-agrawala on Monday March 30, 2009 at 8:24 AMLevels of management refer to the place of managers working in an organization in terms of their location along the chain of boss-subordinate links that exist in their organization.
Managers are linked to other managers in their organization in boss-subordinate relationships. A large organization, with many managers, will have several tiers of such links. That is, a manager linked to a manager at higher in capacity of a subordinate, may be linked to managers at next lower lower as their boss. This way, in a large organization, there can be several levels of management in an organization.
Typically, a manager will have more than one subordinates reporting to him or her. As a result, organizations form a pyramid like structure, in which there will usually be just one or a small group of managers, with no bosses above them. As we move down the organization structure, the total number of managers increases, with maximum number of managers at the lowest level, where they may have only operating personnel - rather than managers reporting to them.
The managers at the highest few level of the organizational pyramid - generally one or two - are described as top management.The persons at management levels are likely to have designations such as chairman, director, CEO and vice president. Managers at the lowest few levels are classified as lower management. Typical designation of lower management persons are supervisor and junior manager. The remaining managers between these two levels are grouped under the category of middle management.
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