What is a General Manager?

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🔥NEW A General Manager (GM) is an executive / senior role within a company, overseeing most or all of a firm's functions. Contrary to functional managers, GMs have a broad, overall responsibility for profit and loss in a company (or a major part of it), and they manage across all or at least multiple functions (i.e., finance, marketing, operations). DEFINITION OF A GENERAL MANAGER A general manager is a person who has a broad, overall, general management responsibility for a particular business or organization or some substantial area of it. JOB TITLES of GENERAL MANAGERS Persons having a general management responsibility may be called in various ways and hold many different job titles, including (but not limited to): President Senior Vice-President (SVP) Vice-President (VP) Regional Vice-President (Regional VP) CEO Senior Partner Partner Managing Director (MD) Director General Manager (GM) Manager Country Manager Segment Manager Regional (...) Read more? Sign up for free

		srinivas Lecturer, India
	Should a GM be Paid Equal on Par with CFO? As a generalist a general manager motivates people (...)

		Blondeel Consultant, Morocco
	What is the Key Role of a General Manager A general manager is indeed all what you write. I (...)

		Loh Tean Hin CxO / Board, Indonesia
	Renumeration of General Manager Role Remuneration for a GM should be higher when turnin (...)

		Mark Buzan Canada
	Use of Term GM in Non-profit Organizations? I wonder if others could comment on this distincti (...)

		Maurice Hogarth Consultant, United Kingdom
	The Function of General Regardless of the actual job title, all managers a (...)