Relationship in Organization¶
Graicunas, V. A. (1937). Relationship in Organization. Papers on the Science of Administration, 181-187.
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Primes¶
- Inverted-U Response
- Management and population biology: span of control versus effectiveness, meeting frequency versus alignment, and crop yield versus fertiliser dose all exhibit a single interior peak.
This sourceFormalizes the geometric growth of superior-subordinate relationships with span of control, the basis for the inverted-U between span of control and managerial effectiveness (effectiveness rises then falls as relationships to track explode).
- Management and population biology: span of control versus effectiveness, meeting frequency versus alignment, and crop yield versus fertiliser dose all exhibit a single interior peak.
- Oversight Capacity
- The maximum direct sub-unit count or span-of-control threshold defining the feasible supervision ratio in a given context
This sourceLuther Gulick & L. Urwick (eds.). Columbia University Press.
- The maximum direct sub-unit count or span-of-control threshold defining the feasible supervision ratio in a given context
Mechanisms¶
- Central Coordinator Role
- The role is bounded by a real limit on how many relationships one node can actively coordinate.
This sourceShows that the number of direct, cross, and group relationships a manager must coordinate grows rapidly with the number of subordinates.
- The role is bounded by a real limit on how many relationships one node can actively coordinate.
- Governance Forum Consolidation
- Graicunas's analysis of supervisory relationships warns that the internal coordination cost of a body grows combinatorially with its size, so a forum merged past a point costs more to run than the sprawl it replaced.
This sourceShows that direct, cross, and group supervisory relationships multiply combinatorially as the number of subordinates increases.
- Graicunas's analysis of supervisory relationships warns that the internal coordination cost of a body grows combinatorially with its size, so a forum merged past a point costs more to run than the sprawl it replaced.
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