In his book "Normal Accidents," the sociologist Charles Perrow argued that when complex technology meets large corporate and government hierarchies, lack of accountability will lead inexorably to destructive failures of systems that might have been operated safely.
Autocratic management style, rigid hierarchies, lack of accountability, passive-aggressive behavior all hide – or enable – bullying.
Efficiency is built into the design of its winning organization in the form of formalized hierarchies of performance accountability, a high division of labor, routinization of specialist tasks, and teamwork at the point of sale.
PASOK established the National Health System and poured money into education but it also undermined the gains by destroying any semblance of hierarchy, accountability and recognition of merit in the public sector.
Hasn't anyone read "Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability" or "Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform"?
Despite the fact that simple economic theory indicates that markets will be more efficient than forms of hierarchy and accountability will not be so complex, we see that many public services have been delivered through institutional structures which more closely resemble hierarchies than markets.
"Accountability of the hierarchy means criminal accountability for the crime of concealment," Courtin said.
Students nowadays come into political consciousness in public, on the Internet, but also in a space the twenty-first-century American college that boasts a clear structure of accountability and hierarchy, a place where you might actually walk across campus, knock on a door, and meet a representative of the power structure.
Students nowadays come into political consciousness in public, on the Internet, but also in a space — the twenty-first-century American college — that boasts a clear structure of accountability and hierarchy, a place where you might actually walk across campus, knock on a door, and meet a representative of the power structure.
Gabbard and Butler both say that the foundation is a resource, not a religious organization; there is no official hierarchy, and therefore no system of accountability, besides Butler's own conscience, and the conscience of those who are devoted to him.
Moreover, instead of conferring authority, the hierarchy establishes an unambiguous sequence of levels of accountability.
