An enterprise of any form of ownership cannot do without a manager. Who are these people and what are their responsibilities?
What is a leader?
According to the dictionary of economic terms (A. B. Borisov’s Big Economic Dictionary), managers are a certain category of workers holding management posts both by the enterprises themselves and their structural divisions. This includes directors (including general ones), managers, superiors, editors-in-chief and chief researchers. This category also includes deputies for the above positions.
In addition, leaders are chairmen, managers, commissars, commanders, work manufacturers, and craftsmen. They also include chief specialists, namely: chief engineer, chief accountant, as well as chief mechanic and other "chief" (dispatcher, agronomist, metallurgist, welder, geologist). And, in addition, it is the chief researcher, editor in chief and chief economist. State inspectors are also in this category. And finally, managers are deputies for all the above posts.
What should he do?
What are the functions of a leader? According to the Labor Code, the head is considered to be an individual who manages the organization in accordance with its constituent documents and regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation. Including it is an executive body in one person. Thus, the head of the organization is both an employee performing duties under a labor contract and a representative of a company whose functions include organizational activities and interaction with third parties - participants in civil turnover. In his activity, he should be guided by the provisions of both labor and civil legislation.
At the same time, the name of the manager's position may sound differently at enterprises of different ownership forms - the president, director (or general director). This is not against the law.
Managers solve all issues related to the direct activities of the company, with the exception of those that are within the competence of the board of directors or the general meeting of founders. He can represent the interests of the company without a power of attorney, issue power of attorney to other employees, issue orders on admission, dismissal, disciplinary sanctions. All norms and rules applicable to any employee are applicable to a manager - to conscientiously fulfill their own duties in accordance with an employment contract, comply with internal regulations and labor discipline, as well as labor protection requirements.
Agreement with the head
According to the law, before concluding an employment contract with a candidate for the position of manager, procedures may be provided for ascertaining the conformity of the future head of the post. This can be a contest, a request for a disqualification, etc. Information on the disqualification of individuals is in a special register maintained by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
An employment contract with a manager may be unlimited or concluded for a specified period. As a rule, the validity period of such an agreement is prescribed in the organization’s charter documents. Usually this period does not exceed five years.
The probationary period for persons accepted by competition for a managerial position is not established. For deputy heads, top managers and heads of departments, the trial period should not be more than six months.
An employment contract for a candidate for a managerial position must include a clause on non-disclosure of confidential information to which he receives access. As well as measures of liability for violation of this paragraph.
Division Head
An enterprise or organization may consist of several structural units. In particular, if a company conducts its business not only at a registered legal address, separate subdivisions (branches or representative offices) are created. Such structural units, territorially distant from the parent organization, have the legal right to represent the interests of the company and organize stationary workplaces.
In such a branch, the head of the division is a full-fledged representative of the company with all the necessary powers. Its functions are similar to the tasks of the management of the parent company, to which it is directly subordinate. In any structural subdivision, managers are the organizers of all current activities and specialists in solving a wide variety of emerging problems.
What else does the leader do?
In addition to directly addressing production issues, managers and senior managers are faced with the task of competently maintaining personnel policies. The success, competitiveness, economic stability of any enterprise depends on the effective work of employees individually and as a whole.
Creating a single team that can work on the result is the manager’s most important goal. Thus, the head of the enterprise is also a psychologist who solves the issues of motivation, status and role of individual employees in the team, and rallying the team.
Top and middle managers are recommended:
- Select groups of people who are close in spirit, moral values, religion, etc. Locate the workplaces of members of such a group in the office at a close distance. The farther employees sit from each other, the lower cohesion in the team.
- Encourage common events and collective decision making.
- Set specific achievable goals for the group and stop conflicts.
- Encourage passive employees and restrain too ambitious ones.
- To maintain and maintain a team atmosphere of cooperation and mutual assistance.