What is the difference between Job title General Manager and Chairman and Executive Director and CEO?

CEO - One who executes the strategy devised by the board and Chairman based on the vision and mission of the company with the help of the team. CEO is essentially the breadwinner for the company holds the responsibility of P & L.

Chairman - One who acts as a mentor , who normally knows all the facets of the company, oversees the company affairs , chairs the meetings. Normally , founders of the companies after holding active front line positions like CEO , MD tend to move on to Chairmanship where the continue to participate mostly in product development , innovation etc however stay absolutely away from day to day affairs.

Directors - There are different types of Directors , like whole time Directors , Executive Directors , Non-Executive Directors. Most companies may have Directors who may not be working full time for the company they can be classified as Non-Executive Directors , they may part of the regular board meetings to provide direction to CEO and MD. On the other hand there may be Directors who may be full time in the company system called as whole time directors. There are another bunch of Director Types but most commonly seen types are Executive Directors , Directors , Independent Directors ( this class is a norm required by ROI ).

Managing Director - This role acts as a fine link between Chairman , CEO , Directors , Employees and Shareholders. While CEO is more bothered about Sales , MD keeps a lot of other things together to keep the system going in a healthy way keeping the value system in sync with business eco.

A lot of other roles like President , Vice-President , AVP are mostly executive positions to designate the senior officials to create enough hierarchy , importance and authority to enable management system.

Group Leader or Team Leaders - These are the middle management positions or even lower management positions where they provide direction and lead the team mostly by leading in front as an example. They are high technical and sales skill in-order to get the desired result from the team below.

Managers - Manager is someone who can manages that can be a single process , multiple process , single territory or multiple territories , single domain or multiple domains of business. So the Designation of Manager is always prefixed or suffixed in order to provide clarity. Example - Manager - Operations , Manager - Sales , Manager - Inventory , Asst Manager - Accounts , Territory Manager etc , General Manager ( is normally used in Production settings not very commonly seen these days , this role is similar to CEO)

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• CEO (Chief Executive Officer) : Highest position in the organization.
• General Manager (GM) : Manager of Departments Managers
• Chairman : Is the head of its board of directors.
• Executive Director : the same as CEO, but use instead of CEO, in Non-profit organizations

Note : Some details here taken from Google.

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Different companies use different nomenclatures for defining management roles. I believe we got a good definition of them in the answers of Mr. Omer and Ms. Manasa!

Now I have to share the differences between General managers, Chairman, Executive Director, and CEO.

1. General managers completely act as scaled-down CEOs, supervise the daily operations of a business segment, department, or stand-alone retail location.
2. A chairman is an executive elected by a company's board of directors who is in charge of presiding overboard or committee meetings.
3. The Executive Director has created a strategic plan for the organization in conjunction with the board. Inform the board of internal and external matters that impacts the company.
4. A CEO is the highest-ranking Executive in a Company, whose first responsibilities include making major corporate decisions.

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These are job titles, and job titles should always be regarded with deep suspicion.  They are pure branding, invented solely for the purpose of creating a certain image.

CEO, Chief Executive, Managing Director and General Manager usually mean much the same thing - the most senior manager or leader in the company.  Occasionally they are given to the senior manager in a division, in which case they often have a modifier e.g. General Manager, UAE.

Chairman is different.  This is not a manager, but the person who chairs or moderates meetings of the Board of Directors.  In some cases this is the same person as the CEO but in large companies this is rarely the case and it is almost always best for them to be different people.  The Chairman has no executive responsibilities (by virtue of that office) and often works part time.

Manasa and Omar gave good answers 

mashalla Great answer given by Mrs. Manasa Kaslekar