Understanding Management Levels: Can You Help Identify Who Fits Where?

Hi All,

Kindly let me know who falls into the following categories:

1. Upper Management
2. Middle Management
3. Lower Management

Regards,
Jennifer Isaac

Dear Jennifer,

These are the categories of employees based on the responsibilities they handle rather than types of management.

In my organization:

1. Upper management consists of Directors, VPs, AVPs, Sr. Managers, and Managers.
2. Middle management consists of Asst. Managers, Sr. Executives, and Executives.
3. Lower management consists of Sr. Officers and Officers.

Since ours is a flat organization, these designations are considered. But in a tall organization, these types of employees/designations only slightly vary.

Hope this solves the issue.

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Regards,
Shailendra

Hi Shailendra,

Can you please provide me with any supporting documents that prove these individuals belong to the top management?

Regards,
Jennifer Isaac

Dear Shailendra,

Supportive document in the sense of who makes the decision as to which individuals will be in upper management and which will be in middle management. Is it documented somewhere that these specific individuals are designated for these management roles, or is it the company that decides that these individuals should be in these types of management positions?

Regards,
Jennifer Isaac

Dear Jennifer,

The management is based on roles and responsibilities, which further determines the designations. For example, Manager HR in my organization is at the middle level, but VP - HR is in the top management. Even though there is no person in between these two designations, ultimately, the manager is going to get promoted afterwards as VP.

Normally, the organization's founder members, Directors (or Board of Directors), decide what the hierarchy in the organization shall be, and levels of employees (i.e., designations) are created.

If there is a problem, then HR interventions are essential depending on how powerful HR is. But most of the time, such levels are declared through the HR manual; hence, it is one of the most essential documents.

Kindly revert back if it is confusing.

Regards,
Shailendra

Hello All,

There are several types of management to mention a few:
- Reputation management
- Modeling management
- Business management
- Human management
- Project management

There are three basic management levels:
- Top management
- Middle management
- Lower, supervisory, or operational management

Thanks,
Happy KPOR

Upper management consists of the Board of Directors who are responsible for setting company policies.

Middle management includes all department heads.

Lower management comprises executives and officers.

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