In the new trend of management, the title "manager" has been changed to be "director". Can you explain?

In my experience these are two different titles and we still see bot in most organization.

I see that the director is more the manager of managers and title highlights that he/she is accountable from his/her department.

If we look and understand what the name title means,we come to see that the role is different and the involvement in the daily activity is also different Manager manage the activities on daily basis while directors offer direction to such daily managed activities.Directors should be more experienced and understand fully what are we really as a company want to accomplish.to offer direction and guidence as a director you must allign the daily managed activities of all line managers and their departments with the company set goals

I also think that both titles refer to different designations, depending on company size, duties and number of managed individuals.

 

A director is mostly the commander-in-chief of a (big) department in a big or midsize company (mostly big companies). The difference lies in the linguistic decoding of "director" being related to "giving direction", designing strategies or drawing up policies without necessarily being in charge of managing the execution of them, which is the job of a manager.

 

We also know the hybrid title "Managing Director", one that I knew closely in a previous job, being under the immediate supervision of such a boss, who was the all-round director of a European Branch of a US-company, while being directly involved in day-to-day operations.

Director is big manager have authority of many managers under him in the organization

but the manager have only section heads under him in the organization

In addition to managing people, I believe,  managers of today are required to play more of a leadership role by directing individuals under them towards the commonly held corporate objectives. This also means to empower those who are unable to meet their corporate goals but also encourage and motivate those who meet or exceed their performance objectives.

Depends on the seniority of position where a person works.

I agreed with most of the answers above,

 

A Director directs manager to get the work done, while a manager only manages, so a Director not only manage but also gives direction to managers what to manage

Management trend is changing because of fast ever changing business environment due to globalisation and other factors. In this scenario, for an effective management, DECENTRALISATION has become the order of the day.In this context of decentralisation, each business unit needs to respond to changing scenario and here exactly, the role of director has become more relevant. 

 

Because a director, in principle, enjoys more flexibility in deciding and directing future course of action in reponse to change in business environment , expectation of stake holders etc etc. Where as, a Manager has  very limited or no such flexibility in coming out with a customized solution / repsonse to address the changed scenario.  

It is seen as a process of empowering  unit leaders so that they can think and act out of box as and when required to address the local issues and seize the opportunity.But, of course, their decission / action or response must be within framework of overall of policy, strategy and goal of the organisation. 

With ever changing business strategies and philosophies further divisions of work forced to introduce new tiers. So managers still exist but director oversee no of manager in interrelated tasks.

I agree with Mr,: Mohammed thiab

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Mr,: Amer

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 Mr,:Khatim  TOO

in fact all of them did it in excellent answers

Managers and directors are two different levels .. and should not be confused with each other.

It is NOT a matter of changing the name or title ..   The role, position and responsibility are different in each case.

 

Directors are higher in the hierarchy and more general than managers.

Directors set the direction of the company/organization and where it is heading ...   so they are closer to the vision of the company and strategic goals/objectives of the company.

 

Managers are lower level in the hhierarchy and they are more at the functional/operational level day to day, month to month ... etc

 

To designate the difference even more, we know there is something called "Board of Directors" that is even higher than the CEO in level. 

 

There is no such thing as "Board of Managers" ...  !!