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Library Administration and Management

Notes Five or six months later, B got a P15-00 monthly increase. Librarian III suggested in a
memo to Librarian V that the increase be retrieved and given to somebody more deserving,
otherwise B might think she did right. The increase was not retrieved.
Administrative Implications
What administrative implications can be gathered from this case?

1. Relation of staff to immediate chief
a. Is it right for B to address the letter to Librarian V when communication
channels are open?

b. Is it right for a subordinate to answer arrogantly his superior officer?
c. Is it right for a well-treated employee to complain without grounds?
d. Is it right for the student assistant to court his superior and for the superior to
accept such attentions from a subordinate? If it is, to what extent could the
student assistant have a say in the relationships with colleagues? If not should
the complainant be given some punishment?

2. Relation of Chief to Supervisor
a. Is it proper for a subordinate to go direct to the highest official for alleged
redress of grievance without exhausting remedies with her immediate
supervisor?
b. Is it proper for the highest official to give due course to a subordinate’s
complaints without first referring her back to her immediate supervisor?
In so doing is Librarian V not encouraging the staff to be conspirators?
3. Relation of staff to fellow staff
a. Is it bad for a colleague to warn a fellow staff member about the intentions of
a suitor especially if he is a subordinate of the object of attention?
b. Is it right for a colleague to break bread with a fellow worker and then write
a letter of complaint soon after the fellow worker has been made to think that
everything is all right between them?
4. If a worker is bored is it right to transfer her to another library doing charging
work? Will the change of place be enough to remove boredom? Would not doing
just one kind of work be more boring?

5. Political and psychological implications
a. Is it possible that B became brave all of a sudden because somebody prompted
her to do this?
b. If so, does the one prompting such a thing deserve dismissal or demotion? If
this is not true, should not B be referred to a psychiatrist for a test in schizophrenic
personality to avoid mental sickness?

6. In the paper presented by Mrs Guerrero, the following factors of good human
relations are noted:
a. democratic
b. fairness

c. free communication
Contd...

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