Board of Directors
Vice-President
Finance Vice-President
Production Vice-President
Sales & Marketing Vice-President
Human Resources 3
Directors 3
Directors 1
Director 2
Directors Exports Domestic Sales
KAF Inc. is a building materials manufacturing company in Detroit. KAF _________ the Chief Executive Officer, _______________ the Board of Directors, which ___________ four people. The staff in each of the four departments ___________ a Vice-President who is also on the Board. In each department a managerial team of directors ______________ the Vice-President. In the Sales Department one director _______________ exports, the other _____________ domestic sales.
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be responsible for be in charge of be supported by assist
be accountable to consist of be headed by
Responsibilities/functions
The Controller is responsible for accounting throughout the company.
The Production Department takes care of product manufacturing.
The Factory Manager is in charge of plant and equipment.
Study the diagram below showing the structure of a mixed type of multinational company based in the USA: some activities are organized into domestic, regional and international divisions, others into worldwide product divisions.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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Domestic Telecom-munications Division |
Domestic Business Systems Division |
Worldwide Defence Systems Division |
Pacific Division (Telecom-munications and Business Systems) |
International Division (Telecom-munications and Business Systems other than in the Pacific region) |
Corporate Staff (Corporate Planning etc.) |
In pairs, write questions and answers using to be responsible for, to take care of, to be in charge of.
Example Who’s responsible for Business Systems in the Pacific? The Pacific Division takes care of that.
Corporate Planning _______________________________________________________________
Defence Systems in Africa _________________________________________________________
Telecommunications in the USA ____________________________________________________
Business Systems in Europe ________________________________________________________
Telecommunications in SE Asia _____________________________________________________
Titles
Below are the main managerial titles.
Managers and executives: uk
All the directors together are the board. They meet in the boardroom.
Non-executive directors are not managers of the company; they are outsiders, often directors of other companies who have particular knowledge of the industry or of particular areas.
The marketing director is the head of marketing, the IТ director is the head of IT, etc. These people head or head up their departments. Informally, the head of an activity, a department or an organization is its boss.
An executive or, informally, an exec, is usually a manager at quite a high level (for example, a senior executive). But 'executive' can be used in other contexts to suggest luxury, as in 'executive coach' and 'executive home', even for things that are not actually used by executives.