Chief General Manager co-ordinates and directs the operations in a specific department in the case of big organizations and sometimes the whole organizations as well if it is a small organization. In a small sized firm, a Chief General Manager might be responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of the organization.

In Government organizations in India, Chief General Managers are offered a pay scale of Rs.37400-67000 plus a GP of Rs.10000. Even some government organizations, pay chief general managers on consolidated pay basis.

Recent government job notifications:

Recently, the following government organizations invited applications from eligible candidates for the position of Chief Genera Manager:

• Goa Shipyard Limited

• National Highways Authority of India

• State Trading Corporation of India Limited

• Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited

• Indian Rare Earths Limited

Educational qualification:

Educational qualification requirement for the position of Chief General Manager purely depends on the department for which they are selected. For instance, if they are selected for technical division of an engineering firm, the engineering organization might require that to be UG and PG degree holders in any specific branch of engineering. If they are selected for the whole organization, in most of the cases, candidates with some UG or PG course in the field of administration or management would be given preference.

Selection Procedure:

Normally for executive positions like Chief General Manager, candidates are selected based on their performance in the personal interview test that would be conducted by the team of top level management people of the organization.

Skills needed to become a successful Chief General Manager:

• Chief General Managers should possess the basic ability to direct other people to work for achievement of goals of the organization.

• They must be skilled in consistent and clear directives and they should also possess the skill of hiring people for middle management of the organization.

• They must possess the ability to organize their department in such a way that the staff under them clearly understands the role to be played in effective achievement of the goals.

• They should also possess motivational skills in motivational skills in such a way that they can motivate the staff of the whole organization or the particular department for which they are appointed to come out with plans to further improve the performance of the whole department

• The main skill to be possessed by Chief General Manager, being an administrative position in an organization is the decision-making skill, which is of high importance.