What do the following job titles mean?

Question

For a company setting, what is the difference between the following titles, and what is the chain of command?

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Company President

Director

Commissioner

Chairman

Answer 1

For each company it can mean any thing!

Basically speaking however, they are as follows:

CEO- runs the day to day business of the corporation

Company President- Either is the owner/founder, or probably is a board member who presides over board meetings... hence the term president!

Director- usually directs a department or wing of the company

Commissioner- usually runs the day to day business of the company.

Chairman- Chairs the board meetings or is in charge of a certain operation of the company...

These are not exact, as they vary darastically from company to company!

Answer 2

To add to Pastor Farley - President is the head of a privately owned company, the CEO is head of a Publicly owned company. A CEO is elected and usually serves 4 to 5 years as head, a president owns the company.  But then again, as Pastor says, that is just a common idea. Many companies use different titles for different reasons.

A Commissoner is usually associated with a public office such as a police commisoner.

A General Manager is usually associated with being the head of a branch - ie, head of a factory or bank within the umbrella of a much larger organisation.

The best chain of command I can give you is:

CEO

Director

GM

or

President

Director

GM

As President and CEO are mutually exclusive, but it's very inter-changeable