Global Managers: The Three Levels Of Management

When we think of management and managers usually the first thing that comes into our minds is that they are the higher ups of a company, they are leaders. We think of them as more knowledgeable than the general employee, with more experience and more leeway to help us with our problem. There are three levels of management and the ones that we usually see are the first level managers, the supervisors. Managers range from the supervisor, who is responsible for a group of individual workers, to the president of a company, whom is the leader. What most of us don 't know is that managers have a vast amount of responsibilities and duties, that they affect what we see being marketed as well as what products and services are brought to us. Global Managers are in short supply these days especially those with the skills to integrate into their new surroundings. Culture shock is real and it can catch you of guard, especially when it 's your job to know how to assimilate into new cultures. John Topete of Terrasearch was sent to Dubai, India without much knowledge of …show more content…
They need to find a way to fit into the market not only culturally but also economically. The environment is another thing to think about, how much will their business affect natural resources as well as how much pollution will it cause. With their business in a different country managers face different laws and work standards. Company procedures need to be translated and changed to fit into the local culture and language. Managers of larger corporations have even bigger ethical dilemmas such as child labor, employee wages, and work place health hazards. When aiming for profit and the growth of your company it is hard to see what is being done wrong and when to speak up, especially if that means throwing your business under the