SPAN OF MANAGEMENT

(Management Principles)

Presented by-:
Abhishek Baliarsingh(04)
Abhishek Nanda(05)
Adil Ahmed(06)
Submitted to-:
Prajna Mohapatra
 Contents:
• What is span of management/definition?
• Factors affecting the span of management
• Graicunas’s three types of subordinate-superior
relationship
 INTRODUCTION
• Span of control, Span of supervision, Span of authority
and Span of responsibility are other names for Span of
management.It indicates the number for people directly
managed effectively by a single person.

• A sound organization depends upon the effective

performance of work by the executives. So, the
executives should neither be overloaded nor be idle.
 DEFINITION
• Span of management means the number of people
managed effectively by a single officer in an organiztion.In
an average firm,an executive can efficiently control up to
five or six subordinates.
• Nornally the members exercising span of control are
decreased at the top level management and increased at
the bottom level management.Ideal number of
subordinates is four in case of higher level management
and eight to twelve in case of bottom level management.
 Factors affecting the span of management
• Time Required to be Spent on Supervision
• Subordinate Training
• Degree of Decentralization
• Planning Required
• Similarity of Functions Supervised
 GRAICUNA’S THEORY OF SPAN OF
MANAGEMENT
The relationship are classified into three categories. They are
given below:
– Direct single relationship
– Direct group relationships
– Cross relationship
 CONCLUSION
• The effective supervision depends upon the efficiency of
the supervisor and the number of subordinates to be
supervised. The effectiveness of the supervision
decreases if the number of relationship is incresed.
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