What Is The Main Role Or Job Of A Director In A Company?

[Good-Guy]

There are many people who are associated with the business organization. Some of them are at upper level and some of them are at lower level. Each and every person has his own rank in a business organization. One of the highest position in a company is that of a director. Since a director holds a very important designation in a company, I believe that there are many responsibilities of a director in the company. Directors are those individuals who make several financial and managerial plans in the company and they are the ones who try to make sure that these strategies and plans are being practically being implemented by the management of the company.

As far as I have read, a director is usually responsible for monitoring the financial operations at a much higher level than that of business management in bigger corporations. Not only do they monitor financial operations, but they also make future plans for the company and approve or disprove the decisions by the upper-level management of the company. A director could be a single person in the company or there may be many directors who run the company and they usually form the board, which is known as the board of directors in the company. What else role does a director play in a company?

 

[Alexandoy]

A company's director has no standard duties because it depends on the table of organization. Usually a director is part of the board who wants a job so he is given a job as a director to oversee a unit or a project. The most popular and common director is the member of the board which means he is a major stockholder. The board of directors is the supreme group that represents the owners of the company. The board is the one to decide who to hire as president and other executives. The had of the board is the chairman and there is also the vice chairman who are the most powerful in the company. From what I see in big corporations here the chairman is the approving signature when hiring a president and the executive vice president.

 

[Sotherefore]

Most times a director always has a perfect understanding about the area of operation he or she is directing , and in this case a director will give instruction of the best things to do in a particular business organisation or when a particular activities is going on.

In a more advanced business organisation a director is always quite different from a business manager because a director only specialise in a particular area of concentration and sometimes when the business had so many things to offers there is always more than one director in a business organisation. Whereas probably it will be only one manager or two managers depending on their area of concentration also.

Some people who are working under the control of director may not really have a professional understanding about what they are doing but they are to obey the instruction of a director.

In a complete Business organisation the workers are to obey the director , while the director are to listen to the manager . Then the manager and business owners gives suggestion concerning to move the business forward and they act on it depending on what was being agreed between both of them. That's how most business are nowadays .

 

[Bookwormlux]

A director is obviously someone whose major responsibility is to make sure that things are done in order . They may not necessarily have the time to go about supervising every individual who is working under that organisation , but what they actually do is, to make sure that they do a final review of all the feedback that has been reported to them from various departments of that organisation.

It is from this feedbacks of thing that a director of any organisation will then determine what is needful to be done to see how the necessary things ought to be put in place .

It is now very important for the directors of different organisations to make sure that , they only appoint people who are reliable and trustworthy to take over certain high-end Jobs, that would enable them to make sure they are getting quality feedback only .

If you end up in a situation whereby , the people who are supposed to report back to you are giving you a false report, it will do more damage than good to the organization's success .

Directors are usually not going to be engaged with every aspect of the organisation , like normal employees would be doing .