What are the factors considered for determining span of control over your office ?

The span of control is otherwise known as span of supervision or span of management the span of control should be short and care should be taken to see that executives are not overloaded with too many subordinates.

An effective span of control includes six subordinates. While deciding the span of subordinates to be managed, the following factors are to be kept in mind:

(a) The skill and capacity of the manager.

(b) The skill and the capacity of the subordinates.

(c) The nature and types of operation.

(d) The extent to which there is a distinction of managerial and operational activities.