The government needs to reverse its decision to split responsibility for making sure food is what it clams to be between the Food Standards Agency and the environment department.
The McDonald's Corporation revamped its top management yesterday and split responsibility for its fast-growing international operations among a team of senior executives.
The announcement of her appointment stated that Ross and Norris would "share the leadership" of the National; but, in a business, split responsibility is generally problematic.
Several agencies split responsibility for oversight, with little coördination: the Food and Drug Administration supervises cosmetics, food, and medications, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates pesticides, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission oversees children's toys and other merchandise.
Labour accused the government of presiding over a food scandal made possible because David Cameron had split responsibility for food policy between the FSA, the Department of Health, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and called on him to review the changes.
A government that is avowedly free-market is about to impose a regulatory framework that will undermine the autonomy of universities, reduce the criteria for university title and split responsibility for sector oversight of teaching and research between two new organisations, the Office of Students and UK Research and Innovation.
All system interfaces are more difficult to deal with than the items in the system because of the split responsibility inevitable for interfaces.
The Department of Labor has jurisdiction over private sector health plans, and the Department of Health and Human Services has jurisdiction over public sector health plans, and the split responsibility makes follow-up difficult.
In part, this reflects the fact that founders are still involved in quite a few firms and feel comfortable splitting responsibilities.
In both Renault and Nissan he has split responsibilities between two pairs of executives reporting to him, meaning there is no obvious successor to hold the carmakers' marriage together if he decides to step down when his contract ends next year.
There is a sense that the employee or employee candidate will not be as strong a contributor as a man or a woman without children because of split responsibilities between work and family.
