Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass Photo by Jack Delano, Library of Congress collection

Management Accountability Hierarchy Not Always Best (Elliott Jaques’s Requisite Organization)

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Recently, a post from Tom Foster made me want to clarify something: The Management Accountability Hierachies described by Elliott Jaques are not always the most effective form of organization. Foster answers a question about the employees of a volunteer outreach center. He clearly believes that it requires a management accountability hierarchy (where there are clear lines of accountability and Real …