Supervisory Review Process and Multilevel Organization Design.
Abstract
The outcomes are described and summarized of a variety of exploratory theoretical and field study approaches to problems in the area of supervisory and managerial job position and skill evaluation, and to multi-level organizational analyses. The general objectives of these approaches were the development and validation of task-analytic methodologies and the design of metrics for quantitatives assessments of supervisory and managerial work. Three initial hypotheses served to guide the research: (1) that the critical component in supervisory and managerial work is the exercise of discretion or judgment; (2) that the level of discretionary work or responsibility in managerial positions is closely related to the time period over which discretion remains unreviewed, and can hense be measured by determining the time period for the longest unreviewed task in a position; and (3) that multilevel management systems obey the same principles as engineering automatic control systems and can be quantitatively analyzed by frequency-domain methods. (Author Modified Abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0756667
Entities
People
- Edward R. F. W. Crossman
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley