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 Levels of Management 

Management is essential for an organized life and necessary to run all types of management. Good management is the backbone of successful organizations.

 Management is a set of principles relating to the functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling, and the application of these principles in harnessing physical, financial, human, and informational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals.

 Segmenting the management of an organization into levels is vital to maintaining the productivity and work performance of employees. Although when there is a change in the size of the business or the workforce, there would also be a change in the number of levels of the management.

The three levels of management provide a separation between the managerial positions of the organization. The administrative rank of an organization worker determines the extent of authority, the status enjoyed, and the chain of command that can be controlled by the worker. There are three levels of management found within an organization, where managers at these levels have different roles to perform for the organization to have a smooth performance, and the levels are -

There are three Principle categories of Levels of Management 

1) Top Level Management - 

It consist of directors and the chief executive or managing director. It is the ultimate source of power and authority, it oversees the goals , policies  , and procedures of the company. 

Main priority of top management is strategic planning and execution of overall business success. 

Roles and responsibilities of top level management- 

1) Laying down the objectives and board policies of business

2) Issuing instructions for department specific budget, schedule , procedures 

3) Preparing strategic plans and procedures

4) Appointing new executives for middle level management

5) Establishing control of all organizational departments

2) Middle Level Management

The branch and departmental managers form the middle level management. They are directly accountable to top management for the functioning of their respective departments. For smaller organization there is always one layer of middle level management.  But for larger organization can see senior and junior levels within this middle section.

Roles and responsibilities of Middle level management- 

1) Executing the plans of the organizations as per policies and directives

2) Forming plans and project for sub departments

3) Participating in hiring and training the lower level management

4) Sending reports ,analysis to the top level of management

5) Evaluating the performance of the junior

6) Keep motivating the lower level of management

3) Lower Level of Management (Supervisors & Operatives )

It consist of Engineers ,supervisors , Newly joined person the level of management is concerned with execution and coordination of day today work flow ensuring completion of project. 

Roles and responsibilities of Lower level management -

1) Assigning jobs and tasks to various workers

2) Guiding and instructing workers in day today tasks

3) Maintaining good relations with lower levels of organization

4) Mediator between lower level of organization and top level of organization

5) Helping to address and resolve the grievances of workers

6) Arranging necessary materials , machine tools etc. 

 

References :

1) Fundamentals of Industrial Safety and Health -By K.U. Mistry 

2) Industrial Safety ,Health and Environment Management System - By R.K. Jain , Sunil S. Rao 

3) WWW.Google.Com