COMMERCE 4PA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Negative Feedback
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A general manager is someone who has responsibility for all functional facets of the business. A general management perspective means having the capacity to understand and appreciate issues facing individuals who are placed in the specific role of a general manager. The job of the general manager is to create, capture, and appropriately distribute value fo the enterprise. Need to recognize emerging opportunities and challenges, prepare a response and ensure the success of whatever plan of action you decide upon. Three fundamental components of the general managers job. Many corporate tragedies are rooted in the fact that senior managers had a false idea of how well their organization was performing. The danger that many senior management teams face is that they think they know where the business stands in terms of organizational health, when often, they do not. Negative feedback to upper-level managers may be implicitly or explicitly discourage. Middle managers may choose to filter out information before it.