What is Level of Management ? || Class 12 || NEB ||

                  Levels of Management

 

1. Top Level Management

2. Middle-Level Management

3. Lower-Level Management

1. Top Level Management: This level consists of a smaller group of managers at the highest hierarchy of the organization. They are responsible for determining the organization's plans, policies, and objectives. Their major functions include providing direction, setting up the organizational structure, delegating authority, providing leadership, controlling activities, preparing operational policies, and representing the organization externally.

Function Of Top-Level Management

To set up an organizational structure.

To delegate and decentralize authority.

To provide leadership.

To control the activities of the organization.

To prepare organizational operational policies.

To control the activities of the organization

 

 

2. Middle Level Management: This level includes department heads or functional managers, such as production managers, marketing managers, finance managers, etc. Their responsibility is to implement the policies and plans set by top-level management through lower-level managers. They supervise and coordinate the work in their respective departments and areas. The middle-level management can be further divided into upper-middle and lower-middle levels.

Function Of Middle-Level Management

To interpret the policies of the organization.

 

To prepare organizational set up in their department.

 

To direct departmental employees and lower-middle level management and get and report information about the daily results of the respective department.

 

To implement policies and decisions prepared by top level management.

 

To appoint employees to fulfill departmental vacancies.

 

To act as a linking pin between top and lower-level management.

 

To make necessary plans to achieve the objectives set by the top-level management. To provide information and assistance to the top management in revising the plans and policies for better performance,

 

To evaluate the performance of departmental employees, etc. Lower-middle level management includes branch manager, assistant managers, plant managers, operation managers, factory-supervisor, 

 

 

3. Lower-Level Management: Also known as first-level, operating, this level is the lowest hierarchy in the management chain. It includes supervisors, office managers etc. Their tasks involve directing, guiding, supervising, and coordinating the employees working in the workplace, and they enforce policies and directions given by higher-level management. Additionally, they are responsible for motivating, rewarding, and ensuring discipline among the workers.

Function Of Top-Level Management

To give orders and instructions to workers.

 

To supervise, monitor and control workers' functions.

 

To develop an action plan for their own branch or section.

 

To classify the work among the employees to be done by own branch and assign task to the concerned workers.

 

To Provide and maintain necessary equipment, tools, materials, etc. to complete the work assigned to the workers and provide necessary training to the workers.

 

To solve the problems raised by the workers, if can be solved, otherwise refer to the upper level. 

 

To give suggestions and necessary concerns to the middle-level manager about the work environment.

 

To maintain discipline amongst the workers.