When looking at Jobs sites and recruitment portals you may have seen information on senior management recruitment and wondered what the job entails. Well senior management is a term that generally is a group or team of individuals who are at the top level of management hierarchies within a business or corporation. These individuals are usually only ranked higher by boards of directors or shareholders. They deal with the managing senior management rather than the day to day running of the business. These roles are sometimes referred to as upper management, higher management or top management.
If senior management is at the top of the tree, who is below it? Well our break down of management levels should help clear that up a bit.
Senior Management
As mentioned before, these people are at the top, just behind owners and directors. Senior management jobs require a large and extensive knowledge of management roles, skills and techniques. The decisions they take will need to factor in long term goals of the business and take in external factors such as markets. They will come to decisions using analytic, directive, conceptual and sometimes behavioural processes.
Senior management will be responsible for strategic decisions for the company and come up with plans and make sure they are effective for the future.
Middle Management
Middle management will have specialised skills in certain areas and have understandings of certain managerial tasks. They will take orders from top level/senior management and will have to implement them within the teams and areas they are responsible for.
Low Level Management
Low level or lower management are the people who will ensure the decisions and plans from middle management and senior management get carried out. The choices and decisions that lower management make will be usually short term and not of high importance.
Foreman
Foreman or lead hand are the people that are in charge or directly supervising the work force in either offices, factories or sales environments.
Rank and File
These people are even lower management that the foremen, they are responsible for smaller and more specific groups of people.
Tags: management, recruitment
March 9th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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