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Unit 8 : Organizing: Process and Means

(i) Responsibility : Responsibility is the obligation of a subordinate to perform the assigned Notes
duties. When subordinate accepts duties, he has to perform those, duties in the manner
desired by the superior.
(ii) Authority : When a person is given certain duties to perform, he must be given necessary
authority also. Otherwise he will not be able to do the work. A typist, for example, cannot do
the typing job if he is not given the right to use facilities such as a place to sit in, a table, a
chair, a typewriter, typing and carbon papers. etc.
(iii) Accountability : After assigning duties and granting authority, one more relationship becomes
necessary. This is the relationship of accountability. Accountability means answerability.
That is, each person has to report to his superior how the work has been done and how
authority has been used.
• An important principle of accountability is the principle of single accountability. A person
should be accountable to one superior only.
• Organizations are social system whole activities are governed by social law. In the words of
Keith Davis, “Just as people have psychological needs, they also have social roles and status.”
As social systems, their environment is one of dynamic changes, rather than a static set of
relations. They are “complex socio-technical system interaction with environment” having both
“adaptive and maintenance mechanisms.” The urge to modify structure and functioning in
order to conform the changing environmental conditions and also the urge to resist change.

8.5 Keywords

• Authority : The power to give orders to people.
• Organization : A group of people, who form a business.
• Benefit : An advantage that something gives, a helpful and useful effect.

8.6 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by Educational Organizing ?
2. What are steps using in Educational Organizing ?
3. What is the accountability ?
4. Explain the nature of Educational Organization.
Answers : Self Assessment

1. (i) organizing (ii) framework
(iii) teaching (iv) activities, efficiency
(v) authority (vi) Single accountability
8.7 Further Readings

1. The Principles and Practice of Educational Management: Tony Bush, Les Bell,
SAGE Publisher, 2002.
2. Educational Management : Strategy, Quality, and Resources, Margaret Preedy, Ron
Glatter, Publiser Open University Press, 1997.
3. Educational Management: Theory and Practice, J.A. Okumbe, Publisher Bairobi
University Press, 1998.

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