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Unit 4. Authority and Responsibility - Coggle Diagram
Unit 4. Authority and Responsibility
Responsibility
Responsibility is the obligation to answer for something. When you are assigned a task, you are automatically responsible for it. If it goes well, you take credit for it. And if it doesn't, so do you.
So far we have already distributed tasks and the resources to do them. But now we need to distribute the responsibility for those tasks and those assigned resources. In reality, these distributions are not done separately. When delegating a task to someone.
for example
To conduct enrollment at a school, that person should be delegated everything else
(resources, responsibility and authority)
.
Your primary accountability is upward. We are accountable to many people, but in the work environment we are primarily accountable to our immediate boss.
Authority
Authority is the power to make decisions. Authority, the power to command and be obeyed. If you are assigned a task, you should also be assigned a minimum power (authority) to perform the task.
That is, in the development of the task you will have to make certain decisions: with the proper authority and to a certain extent, those decisions will be made by you and that's it. Without authority you would have to go and ask for permission to move every finger. That is not convenient: you lose time and money.
Authority goes downward. One always has authority over oneself, but we can also have authority over other people (subordinates or collaborators).
Balance Authority - Responsibility
This is a much touted but little used balance: we always go more one way than the other.
For example: in which of the following situations have you been involved:
José is assigned a task, is responsible for it, performs it but cannot even suggest a change, and has to ask permission to perform each step.
each step.
Maria is the Marketing Manager. As such she has authority over the entire department, she commands everyone and everything; however, when something goes wrong she has no responsibility for it.
Authority without responsibility is tyranny, is dictatorship. Responsibility without authority is slavery. When there is no balance we are closer to dictatorship or slavery. It is necessary to stay in the middle ground, it is necessary to have balance between the forces.
Organization charts
An organization chart is the graphic representation of a company's organization, especially its authority and responsibility.
What is shown in an organization chart are positions. A position is a set of functions, which in turn are a set of tasks. Thus, the organization chart also shows the distribution of tasks, but very superficially.
Now join the positions from highest to lowest, defining who commands whom: the President to the Vice Presidents (if any), the Vice President of Marketing to the Advertising Manager and the Public Relations Manager, the Advertising Manager to the Editor-in-Chief, and so on.
There are several types of organization charts. The main ones are functional and linear (like that of an army or military organization).
Functional: if organized according to the functions performed (marketing, human resources, etc.).
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