Re: [LANG] Giu gin su trong sang cua tieng Me~o

[Tuan V Nguyen <t.nguyen@garvan.unsw.edu.au>]

Hello Hoa and friend,

	DDo.c ca'i subject cu?a ba'c la` to^i tha^'y "to^'i" 
chu+' co' sa'ng gi` dda^u :-)). Tie^'ng mi`nh to^i co`n 
struggle huo^'ng chi la` tie^'ng cu?a thie^n ha. ...

>>Nhu+ng khi qua dde^'n My~thi` ma^'y o^ng Me~o la`m ngu+o+.c la.i la`
>General >Director (va` bo? luo^n ca'i ga.ch no^'i) va` du`ng cho ca'c co^ng
>ty tu+ nha^n. >Nhu+ng hi`nh nhu+ General Manager la` chu+~ "ddang le^n".
>
>Theo toi, trong cac cong ty tu nhan My, chu Director va Manager dung de chi
>nhung vi tri khac nhau kha xa: Directors are top management, they make up
>the Board of Directors, whose decisions are strategically important for the
>business as a whole.  Managers consist of all the lower levels of
>management and are responsible for day-to-day business activities. The
>difference between directors and managers is more apparent in big
>corporations.

	Not necessarily! Depending on the company's structure 
AND culture. I said "culture" because I know of companies who 
want to lure good employees by simply offering them grandiose 
title such as "director of X", but he/she performs exactly 
the same duties as "manager of X". Some companies, 
particularly the middle ones, prefer the title General 
Manager in place of Chief Executive Officer (or Chief 
Operating Officer) and under this fellow (general manager) 
there are heap of directors. On the other hand, under CEO, 
there are heap of managers. 

	Large corporations have board of directors and members 
of the board are titled as "director". However, in the 
operational hierarchy, there are also "directors", such as 
director of finance, director of marketing and so on, which 
are not members of the board. 

	In summary, in practice, there is no clear distinction 
between these titles. What is clear is the size of wage and 
salaries :)!

	Tuan V Nguyen