What is meant by Judicial Accountability?

As a Principle of organization: Span of control is a necessary corollary to the principle of Hierarchy.

It simply means the number of subordinates that an administrator can personally direct. According to Dimock, “the span of control is the number and range of direct, habitual communication contacts between the chief executive of an enterprise and his fellow officers”. However, there is no unanimity among the scholars as regards the length of the span or the number of subordinates an individual can direct.

Different Views:

For Very-Five

Hamilton-Six

J.C. worthy-Twenty

Dale-Sixteen

Graicunas did geometrical calculations to find the appropriate number of subordinates. He gave the formula in (2n-1 + n-1) where ‘n’ refers to the supervisor. To him, the ideal number is six.

The recent studies points out that there cannot be clear cut rule governing the span of control. In fact, organization and its structure personality of supervisor and his function have crucial bearing in this respect.