The phrase "authority relationship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the dynamic or connection between individuals or groups where one holds power or influence over the other.
Example: "In a workplace, the authority relationship between a manager and their team members can significantly impact productivity and morale."
Alternatives: "power dynamic" or "hierarchical relationship".
Transaction cost economics argues that the modern large firm represents a substitution of contractual relationships with an authority relationship.
It is unlikely that every pair that we could generate by simple combinatorial expansion represents a valid authority relationship.
If the current were only of one kind, such as either admiration or hostility, then the authority relationship would be simpler to describe as well as to manage.
"Boss-haters enter into any authority relationship with barely repressed cynicism and ingrained negativity toward 'the system.' And even though their reasons may be varied, from upbringing to personality to political bent, boss-haters are unified in their inability to see the value in any person above them in a hierarchy".
Standard operating procedures and organization charts, which are essentially maps of formal authority relationships, are two of the most important symbols (and products) of formal organization.
Of course, the qualities demanded have to be present in some nascent form ready to emerge as soon as the emotional currents become real in authority relationships.
An in-depth study of Oticon A/S suggests that loose coupling can be deliberately brought into the design of the organisation by introducing a certain structural ambiguity into the configuration of role systems and authority relationships.
Drawing on relationalism as a theoretical lens, we examine how normative organising structures, rights and authority relationships influence the cultivation of strategic foresight among organisational members lower down the organisational hierarchy.
There are a good many finding aids that can be used to trace Federal legislation through the codification process, and to follow authority relationships between legislative- and executive-branch materials, such as presidential documents and the Code of Federal Regulations.
As long as those to whom the adhocracy is accountable regard its tasks as necessarily ill-structured and critical, the unconventional nature of authority relationships and decision-making styles is tolerated.
The label "formal" is used because the concept encompasses the officially sanctioned rules, procedures, and routines of the organization, as well as the role-defined authority relationships among members of the organization.
