A Span of Control Tool for Clinical Managers

Work environments and staff responses to work environments in institutional long-term care

“…Managers with wider spans of control generally have less opportunity to develop relationships with individual staff (Cathcart et al, 2004). Therefore, when examining leadership and supervision effectiveness in ILTC, consideration should be given to the number of persons who report to each supervisor to allow for the development of effective employeesupervisor relationships (Simons, 2005;Morash, Brintnell, & Rodger, 2005).…”

Examining the relationships between span of control and manager job and unit performance outcomes

“…First, we defined SOC ‘as the control of managers based on the number, skill, stability and diversity of staff; the complexity of the unit(s); and the budget and diversity of the programme for which the manager is responsible’ (Morash et al . , p. 90). We proposed that FLM personal characteristics and their SOC would have an effect on manager job and unit performance outcomes.…”

Span of management: concept analysis

“… ‡ Adapted from Ouchi and Dowling (1974), § Morash et al. (2005), ¶ House and Miner (1969), **Pabst (1993). …”

“…Multiple variables were used to operationalize budgetary responsibility, programme diversity, complexity of material management, and characteristics of staff. A field study demonstrated that the tool adequately reflected variation among managers in one hospital (Morash et al. 2005).…”

“… *Mahon and Young (2006), † Filerman (2003), ‡ Alidina and Funke‐Furber (1988), § Pabst (1993), ¶ Altaffer (1998), **Doran et al. (2004), †† McCutcheon (2004), ‡‡ Morash et al. (2005), §§ Redman and Jones (1998). …”