EcoMerc

Strategic Organizational Consulting

Discretion over work exceptions

Question:
How much discretion does the typical middle manager have over how work exceptions are to be handled?
  • No answer / Undetermined
  • Very high
  • High 
  • Some
  • Little
  • None

Greater middle management discretion over work exceptions indicates lower centralization or greater decentralization. Work exceptions refer to absence, breaking of rules or policies, abuse, theft, etc.

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Medtronic case: Centralization