Having to answer to someone for your actions. It
makes us answer to our superiors for the quality of our performance and for the
ways in which we choose to perform our duties.
A person's right to give orders and instructions to
others as a result of the position he or she occupies. Authority is also called
formal authority.
The act of passing one's authority, in part or in
total, to another. Only managers can delegate, and only authority is delegated.
An enterprise that has dearly stated purposes and
goals, a division of labor among specialists, a rational design or
organization, and a hierarchy of authority and accountability (management).
The right that a manager of one department (usually a
staff department) has to make decisions and to give orders that affect another
department. For example, the personnel department can dictate hiring practices
to all other departments.
The group of people picked to staff an organization's
positions of formal authority-its management positions. Members of the
hierarchy oversee all the people and activities of the organization.
A member of the organization's hierarchy who oversees
a department or activity that directly affects an organization's success
(profitability), such as production, finance, or marketing activities.
(1) an activity that uses the functions of planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling human and material resources for the
purpose of achieving stated goals; (2) a team of people (the hierarchy) that
oversees the activities of an enterprise in order to get its tasks and goals
accomplished with and through others.
A member of an organization's hierarchy who is paid
to get things done with and through others by executing the four management
functions. Managers always have formal authority, but to be effective they
should also possess power (informal authority).
Members of the hierarchy below the rank of top
management but above the supervisory level. Their subordinates are other
managers.
The level of the hierarchy that oversees the work of
nonmanagement personnel (workers).
The ability to influence others so that they respond
favorably to orders and instructions. Power comes to people through their
personalities and jobs. It is often called informal authority, and it cannot be
delegated.
The obligation each person with authority has to
execute all duties to the best of his or her ability.
A member of the organization's hierarchy who renders
advice and assistance to all other managers or departments in his or her area
of expertise.
A member of the operating level of the management
hierarchy who directs the activities of nonmanagement employees (worker).
The level of the hierarchy that includes the chief
executive and his or her subordinates. worker any employee who is not a member
of the management hierarchy.
