Executive: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Executive

  • an employee in a position of senior responsibility in an organization. An executive is involved in planning, strategy, policy making, and line management. The term executive can also be used as an alternative to manager, consultant, executive officer, or agent.

Wiktionary Definition for: Executive

  • #Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect
  • #A title of a chief officer or administrator

Additional Resources

Qantas.(appointments)(Brief article)
Qantas announced a reorganized executive structure as follows: John Borghetti, executive GM-Qantas Airlines; Kevin Brown, executive GM-people; David Cox, executive ... Qantas announced a reorganized executive structure as follows: John Borghetti, executive GM-Qantas Airlines; Kevin Brown, executive GM-people; David Cox, executive GMengineering; Grant...
Tags: Qantas Airways Ltd.
Research articles 2006-04-01
What You Need To Know About Executive Job Search
It's natural for all executive job seeking individuals to reach for career progression and development. It brings in the feeling that all of their heavy work has been very worthy and that a promotion is, indeed, the finest honor they can get. But for some whose luck seems to be...
Tags: Career, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Job Search, Job
White papers 2008-01-01
Executive Summary As A Guiding Light
Certainly the most significant part of any business plan is its executive summary. The executive summary is not just an introduction to the business plan. The executive summary is the business plan in miniature. It stand alone, almost as a kind of business plan within the business plan. It should...
Tags: Executive Summary, Business Plan
White papers 2000-10-01
How To Get Headhunted
The Executive Recruitment or Executive Search industry is quite fragmented, and necessarily secretive, making it difficult to create a definitive picture. If you don't have any experience of how headhunting works go through this paper. There are some huge Executive Search firms operating across the globe and very, very many...
Tags: New Life Network, Search, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Insider's Guide to Executive Coaching
While most people have heard of executive coaching, few have personal experience working with a coach. In this paper, the author presents his view of the profession and process from seven years of working as an executive coach. There are plenty of references that describe the various types of executive...
Tags: Insider, Executive, International Data Group, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2005-08-01
Pivotal Signs Former IBM Executive as Executive Vice President of EMEA; Pivotal Adds Top Executive with International, Enterprise Expertise
Business Editors
Tags: IBM Corp., Pivotal Corp.
Research articles 2001-06-07
Business Coaching Improves Executive Performance
Business coaching is a partnership between the coach and the client. It is a level where the coach and the client quite effortlessly become a part of great results, in the quickest possible time. Coaches are generally counselors, who discuss the problems with the clients and help them solve the...
Tags: Performance, Coach, Executive, Article Ammo, Coaches, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2007-01-01
3Com Names Former Sony Executive Carl Yankowski Chief Executive Officer for Its Palm Computing Subsidiary; Also Announces Palm's Executive Management Team and New Board Members
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 2, 1999--
Tags: 3Com Corp., Palm Inc., Sony Corp.
Research articles 1999-12-02
Charming The Worker Bees
From the executive summary: ‘Narrowing the gap between executive and non-executive employee compensation may not be as expensive as one thinks. The gap between executive and employee compensation continues to widen. Executive perks are becoming perkier, but the non-executive employees are seeing the same, if not worse, benefits packages year...
Tags: Human Resources, Benefits, Worker, Employee Compensation, Iowa State University, Compensation
White papers 2003-01-01
How to Become an Executive Coach
Executive coaches claim that they can improve organisational performance by transforming the way people relate. The best of the bunch will charge a person £2,000 a day for their troubles - but profess they are worth every penny. So what are executive coaches and how can an individual become one?
Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Executive, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-11-16
Brickstream Corporation Appoints Former Clarus and HP Executive Steve Jeffery as CEO
ATLANTA -- Company Strengthens Executive team with the appointment of Jeffery as well as Hiring Former S1 Executive Kevin Ashworth as VP Operations
Tags: Clarus Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
Research articles 2004-08-16
The Executive Job Search...8 Secrets Of A Winner!
When you're looking for a job at the executive job search level, everything is different! Yet most executive and senior managers look for a job the same way they did when they graduated from college or graduate school. And you've probably been disappointed with the results. Resumes go unanswered. The...
Tags: Job, Job Search, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Opalis Names Veteran Technology Executive Yale Tankus as VP of Strategy and Business Development
Leader in Run Book Automation Software Strengthens Executive Team With Addition of Former HP OpenView Business Unit Executive
Tags: business development, strategy, Yale University
Research articles 2006-12-19
Time Off is Money
This paper gives an overview of the insurance action taken by the company in respect to the people working. If a finance executive noticed a cost of operation was steadily escalating every year, to the point where it averaged 15% of total payroll, the executive might make controlling the growth...
Tags: Treasury & Risk Management, Executive, Insurance, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2003-06-01
How to Present an Executive Summary
How to Present an Executive SummaryHow to write an Executive summary.The basic idea is OK, but - paragraphs 1, 2 and 3?? If it is more than one paragraph all up its probably too long. Perhaps you need a second category - the Extended Executive Summary?Try substituting the...
Tags: Executive Summary
Discussion threads 2007-08-16
The Brave New World Of Executive Compensation And Benefits
Executive compensation and benefits refer to the rewards and incentives given to the employees of an organization in addition to their fixed salary. They include fringe benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans. The paper examines the executive compensation and benefits scenario and discusses current trends of the same....
Tags: Human Resources, Benefits, Executive Compensation, Compensation
Presentations 2003-02-11
Leaving Your Footprint
From the executive summary: ‘Everyone knows the value of first impressions, but last impression may be the most important of career. Whether it is a celebrated planned retirement or an inglorious firing, sooner or later, every association executive will be the central player in an executive transition. Executive transition is...
Tags: Center For Association Leadership, Impression, Executive Transition, Leadership, Corporate Governance, Professional Development, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Career
White papers 2003-11-01
Event411.com Appoints New President and Executive Vice President; Former L.E.K. Partner Francis Hawkings and Former Ketchum Executive Sam Rand Join Event411.com's Executive Team
Business Editors & High-Tech Writers
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, team
Research articles 2000-03-27
A.T. Kearney Executive Search Announces New Management Team; Company Announces New Offices in Moscow and Vienna
LONDON -- A.T. Kearney Executive Search announced today it has formed an executive committee to manage the newly independent company. The firm also announced it has established new offices in Moscow, Russia and Vienna, Austria. A.T. Kearney Executive Search was acquired in January by an investment group led by international...
Tags: A.T. Kearney
Research articles 2006-03-07
Considerations On Hiring Senior Management Employees
From the executive summary: ‘Recruiting is a challenge in this labor drought, and recruiting executives is even more taxing. Researches indicate that companies are about to be engaged in a war for senior executive talent that will remain a defining characteristic of their competitive landscape for decades to come. Most...
Tags: Hiring, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Recruiting
White papers 2003-01-01
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