Director General

07:33 Aug 11, 2004
English to Polish translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / company positions
English term or phrase: Director General
What is the difference between a CEO and "Director General" in a laaarge company? Context:
"X would then resign from his executive functions at Y, but would remain as special adviser to the Chairman of Y. X would then offer current CEO, Z, the position of Director General".

The client says: "Director General is an executive level position but is lower than CEO"

Both 'CEO' and 'DG' are translated into "dyrektor naczelny/generalny" by reputable EN->PL dictionaries and as "DG" by the Canadian Termium...

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4 +3dyrektor generalny
Marek Daroszewski (MrMarDar)
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director general
dyrektor generalny


Explanation:
IMHO (verified by native speakers) CEO = Polish "prezes zarządu"

thus, by rank we could have
CEO (Prezes Zarządu)
MD/DG (Dyrektor generalny, zarządzający, naczelny, etc. aka 1. wiceprezes)
VP's/Directors (wiceprezesi, dyrektorzy)

HTH :)

thus PWN/Oxford is WRONG by saying that (quote):
CEO = chief executive officer, CEO n dyrektor m naczelny or generalny
managing director n dyrektor m naczelny or generalny

while New Kosciuszko is right by distinguishing the two:
CEO C.E.O.
abbr.
US chief executive officer prezes zarządu; przen. prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych.

managing director [IMO = or nearly equal to: director general]
n.
Br. i Austr. dyrektor naczelny.

in smaller companies often CEO is at the same MD (or the other way round)

HTH :)

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Note added at 22 mins (2004-08-11 07:55:23 GMT)
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in smaller companies often CEO is at the same TIME MD (or the other way round)


Marek Daroszewski (MrMarDar)
Local time: 19:58
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We need to get at three separate titles in Polish: Chairman/CEO/DG...

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  makary: NB chyba nie "right by" tylko "righ in distinguishing" lub "right to distinguish"
23 mins
  -> ;-)

agree  Adam Zakrzewski
5 hrs
  -> dzieki

agree  A_Panda
3 days 2 hrs
  -> dzieki
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director general
niżej


Explanation:
"dyrektor zarządzający" daje sporo googli jako CEO. Brzmi średnio, ale cóż...
Zakres oboiązków masz tu:
http://praca.hrk.pl/common/advert_templates/kp.asp?idA=63263...
a podpórkę terminologiczną tu:
http://www.oe.pl/index.php?DID=0x001701000200010000000000000...
Wtedy "director general" będzie "naczelny".

Obowiązki CEO masz też tu: (z tłumaczeniem jako "prezes", które mi się nie podoba)
http://praca.gazeta.pl/praca/1,47371,204040.html#dalej

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Note added at 20 mins (2004-08-11 07:53:23 GMT)
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Chociaż prezes jest faktycznie chyba wyżej niż dyrektor naczelny, więc może ma to sens.

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Note added at 8 hrs 38 mins (2004-08-11 16:11:51 GMT)
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Zauważ, że u nas też jest często jednoosobowy \"prezes i dyrektor naczelny\". Jak wstawisz tak do Googla, da ci sporo wyników.

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