Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Dirección General
English translation:
Senior Management
Added to glossary by
patinba
Sep 7, 2020 09:35
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Spanish term
Dirección General
Spanish to English
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
internal company manual
I'd particularly like native English speakers' opinion on this, please.
The term appears regularly in this company's SIG (integrated management system).
"Ante situaciones nuevas o cambiantes que afecten al SIG, la Dirección General las analizará y, en consecuencia, planificará los cambios en el SIG para cumplir con los nuevos requisitos. Dirección General tendrá en cuenta el propósito de los cambios y sus consecuencias potenciales, la integridad del SIG, la disponibilidad de recursos y asignará responsabilidades y autoridades."
Seeing as the company is medium-sized, "General Directorate" or "Directorate General" don't seem right to me, so I'm thinking "the company's general management team" or "the company's management team" or simply "management". But the fact that they have capitalised the term pushes me towards something more formal. Or maybe I should not overcomplicate it and just say "General Management" - although that term does seem rather nebulous to me and if I were an employee of the company reading it, I wouldn't really know what it meant!
What do others think, please?
Many thanks
The term appears regularly in this company's SIG (integrated management system).
"Ante situaciones nuevas o cambiantes que afecten al SIG, la Dirección General las analizará y, en consecuencia, planificará los cambios en el SIG para cumplir con los nuevos requisitos. Dirección General tendrá en cuenta el propósito de los cambios y sus consecuencias potenciales, la integridad del SIG, la disponibilidad de recursos y asignará responsabilidades y autoridades."
Seeing as the company is medium-sized, "General Directorate" or "Directorate General" don't seem right to me, so I'm thinking "the company's general management team" or "the company's management team" or simply "management". But the fact that they have capitalised the term pushes me towards something more formal. Or maybe I should not overcomplicate it and just say "General Management" - although that term does seem rather nebulous to me and if I were an employee of the company reading it, I wouldn't really know what it meant!
What do others think, please?
Many thanks
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | Management |
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| 4 | (the) Executive |
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| 3 | CEO's office |
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Change log
Sep 8, 2020 17:28: patinba Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Management
Certainly for an English speaker "Management" (capitalised if you wish) conveys the correct level of authority.
Peer comment(s):
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S. Kathryn Jiménez Boyd
: Yes, or "senior management" also works, just to make a distinction between the people doing the managing and other instances where you might need to use the noun "management" to describe how things are managed (i.e. the management of this issue).
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Yes. Thank you!
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AllegroTrans
: The word for management in its generic sense would be administración, surely?
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The Dirección General would be responsible for the administration.
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Antonella Perazzoni
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Gracias!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks everyone. Based on the answers and comments, and knowing a bit about the size of the company etc, I'm going with my original placeholder option of "senior management" (no capitals) - because ultimately, for this company, quality and safety are paramount and therefore whatever they actually mean by "Dirección General", it is the senior management team who will oversea it and be responsible/liable. Thanks again!"
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CEO's office
This may not be the management in general but the office of the CEO
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Note added at 8 hrs (2020-09-07 17:39:40 GMT)
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I think if "general management" was intended this would be "administración general". A formalistic meaning of "dirección" is "directorate" which would equate to the office or department headed by a director.
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Note added at 10 hrs (2020-09-07 20:22:12 GMT)
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It could be a Board of Directors (all depends on the company's legal form) but if there is a sole director (very common in Spanish SMEs) I think this would work. The Guinness was one Imperial pint but there was more to be had t'be sure of it
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Note added at 8 hrs (2020-09-07 17:39:40 GMT)
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I think if "general management" was intended this would be "administración general". A formalistic meaning of "dirección" is "directorate" which would equate to the office or department headed by a director.
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Note added at 10 hrs (2020-09-07 20:22:12 GMT)
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It could be a Board of Directors (all depends on the company's legal form) but if there is a sole director (very common in Spanish SMEs) I think this would work. The Guinness was one Imperial pint but there was more to be had t'be sure of it
Note from asker:
| Yes, thanks, I guess it could be. It is somewhat ambiguous. It certainly should be management at a senior level since it is all about quality and compliance. Is that the world's largest pint of Guinness you're holding in that picture! :-) |
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(the) Executive
An option.
Senior management, executive management, upper management, or a management team is generally a team of individuals at the highest level of management of an organization who have the day-to-day tasks of managing that organization—sometimes a company or a corporation.
Senior management, executive management, upper management, or a management team is generally a team of individuals at the highest level of management of an organization who have the day-to-day tasks of managing that organization—sometimes a company or a corporation.
Discussion
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