Design

Abstract

Definition. The relationship “supervision” is not one-to-one. By Postulate 2 of Section 2, each organization member, except the president, has one and only one supervisor. Supervision would give rise to unnecessary chains of command, if a supervisor had only one subordinate. The number of immediate subordinates of a full-time supervisor is called his/her span of control s. From now on this span is assumed to be at least 2,

$$ s \mathbin{\lower.3ex\hbox{$\buildrel>\over {\smash{\scriptstyle=}\vphantom{_x}}$}} 2.$$