Nature and Significance of Management — Part 2: Levels, Functions and Coordination: visual lesson, CBSE Class 12 Business Studies

Lesson

Levels, functions and coordination

Part 2: who manages, what managers do, and how coordination binds it all together.

In this lesson you will

Part 2 at a glance

Diagram

Authority flows down; information flows both ways.

Concept

Table of the three levels of management with who belongs to each and their main tasks
Level	Who	Main tasks
Top	Chairperson, CEO, MD, board	Goals and strategy; coordinate all departments; survival and social impact
Middle	Heads of production, finance, marketing, HR	Interpret policies; staff and assign duties; motivate; link with other departments
Supervisory	Foremen, supervisors	Oversee workers; quality and wastage; morale; pass problems upward