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Dunno if this is management 101 but someone mentioned casually the relationship between responsibility and authority. A mismatch between those two creates tensi
by jrvarela56 8y ago
Dunno if this is management 101 but someone mentioned casually the relationship between responsibility and authority. A mismatch between those two creates tension (employee dissatisfaction).
I have not found the comment or literature on the subject. Experiences at my day job tell me this is key to org/role design and management in general.
- allenz 8y agoThere are several good articles discussing ARA: http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-authority-with-responsibility http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-... https://ssbg.co.nz/about/media/words-with-meaning-the-importance-of-definitions/ https://ssbg.co.nz/about/media/words-with-meaning-the-import... https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2016/decision-making-alignment/ https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2016/d... For HN comments specifically, you might have read one of these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9767231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9767231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552107
- jrvarela56 8y agoThanks! Seems I still need a couple of ‘Let me google that for you’ sent my way hehe