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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Should managers delegate authority to Junior Managers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.213110.17174@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <92318.154235FR5641A@auvm.american.edu> <1992Nov16.134238.24736@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:31:10 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- zanetti@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Alessandro Zanetti) writes:
-
- >Fadi A. Rabie <FR5641A@auvm.american.edu> writes:
-
- >>Should managers delegate authority to his subordenates, and if so
- >> should they have the power to make decisions. Should this happen
- >> should the manager be part of the group-decision process.
- Authority can be delegated at will; _responsibility_, however, cannot. If a
- manager delegates the authority for certain decisions to a lower level, and
- the lower livel screws up, he will _still_ be flamed for the results.
- Although this may seem unfair, it actually makes sense.
-
- >I'm happy to read such questions, not just because I have an answer, but now I
- >know there is someone else that have or had to do with this problems.
- I haven't personally had the problem, but this topic is covered in some detail
- in the Industrial Management program at Georgia Tech (probably most good
- business programs; anyway I'm GT Class of '83).
-
- >So I want to write here what I have to do, hoping that someone can give me some
- >suggestions.
- You might pick up a book on management theory. No titles come readily to
- mind, but checking out a local college bookstore should help. Be warned,
- however, that this will be among the most boring reading you'll ever do; so
- much of it is obviously common sense, and so much that may not be seems too
- easy to dismiss without serious thought.
-
- >In real organizations, members have a role, manager, responsible of an area,
- >...slave... and so on.
- Roles and the people who fill them are not necessarily the same. A person
- can have many roles, and one role may be filled by many people. If you find
- some material on organizational structure, check out the matrix style of
- organization for some ideas.
-
- >I'm trying to formalize concepts such as manager, responsibility, area of
- >activity, sub-area, commitment, resource, ...
- Remember that these are just words, although you do speak specifically of
- _concepts_. I always found them a little hard to define without using
- themselves in the definition.
-
- >Then I'll have to implement such model in an Object-Oriented Language based on
- >Common Lisp.
- Now here, I cannot help you. Sorry.
-
- >What I ask is:
-
- >IS THERE SOMEONE IN THE WORLD DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM I DESCRIBED (HOW TO FIND
- >A MODEL OF ORGANIZATION) THAT IS SO KIND TO EXCHANGE WORDS AND IDEAS WITH ME???
- If I can contribute something useful, I will be satisfied with having done so.
- You be the judge...send email if you like.
-
- -JTT
-