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Meera Textiles Ltd. has a production manager who receives the annual sales target and the company's quality policy from the directors. She prepares the departmental production schedule, allocates budgets to three section heads and reviews their reports, then sends a consolidated report upward. Which statement best describes her role?

She is a middle level manager. She takes the directors' targets and policies, turns them into a departmental production schedule, allocates budgets to section heads who supervise workers, and reports upward. This linking and coordinating function is characteristic of middle management, not of top or supervisory levels.

  1. AShe is a top level manager because she receives targets from directors
  2. BShe is a middle level manager because she translates policy into departmental plans and coordinates supervisorsCorrect
  3. CShe is a supervisory manager because she allocates work to section heads
  4. DShe is an operative worker because she prepares schedules

Explanation

She receives policy from top management, converts it into departmental plans, directs section heads (supervisors) and reports upward. This is the typical middle management role. She does not frame company-wide policy, so she is not top level, and she manages managers rather than workers directly, so she is not supervisory.

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