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Organisational Change
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Organisational Change

by Harsh Pathak
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
12h 9m
English
Pearson India
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9.2.1 Hierarchy and Responsibility

The traditional concept and practice of supervision is based on the belief that the sense of responsibility increases with the increase in hierarchical level. The main role of the supervisor is to carefully plan, guide, and monitor the execution of the plan by his employees. The supervision has to be close and detailed, and very little freedom needs to be given to the operating employees.

Developmental supervision does not believe in this. It is based on the belief that although the level of responsibility may and does increase with the increase of managerial level (with the higher level competencies involved), the sense of responsibility is well spread out amongst all the levels of the organisational hierarchy. ...

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