Managerial Levels / Hierarchy

 Managerial Levels / Hierarchy:

Every organization has managerial hierarchy or chain of command that consists of various levels of authority. The number of managements generally differs from organization to organization. Since management is process of exercising authority and understanding responsibility, its function is to be allocated according to various functional departments or sections. By and large, quite many organizations identity within them three levels of management such as –

1)        Top management: Top management deals with policy issues and with planning and analysis that totally concerns the entire organization and its future direction. They are vested only with preliminary control and him obtaining feedback to assesses degree of long-range plan success. The nature of their work can be classified as intangible and hence cannot exercise touting or concurrent control. The top management may consist of an individual called chief Executive/Managing Director or group of personas consist of a chairman and functional directors. The special features of top management are creative imagination, judgment, initiative and vision After function of top management include-

a)      Planning

b)      Analysis and interpretation of inter and external environment.

c)      Effective organization.

d)      Senior appointments.

e)      Profit distribution

f)       Providing apex direction and leadership.

g)      Company relationship  

2)        Middle Management: These are a crucial link between to management and first line operating management. These are concerned with preliminary control in the forms of operating policies and procedures some of their functions include-

a)      Executing polices laid by top management.

b)      Formulating rules, regulations and procedures for lower-level management members.

c)      Motivate, develop and train supervisory or first line managerial staff.

d)      Developing new products, processes, capital investment plan, and productivity improvement plans-

e)      Controlling and reporting of progress.

3)        First Line Operating or (Supervisory Management):  They deal with current plans, programmers and events. Actually, they deal with short term problem. They are not much interested in what happened in the past or what will happen in future. They live in current period. Some of the major function of them involve.

a)      Planning day to day programmers.

b)      Assigning of jobs/tasks to workmen.

c)      Issuing instruction and order to workmen

d)      Preparing and dispatching daily to reports.

e)      Maintaining discipline.

To collect information to ensure maintaining quality, reducing inventory and operating costs and engaging labor fully on daily basis.   

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