HR question-Why should an employee report to only one boss, rather than have to answer to two or more people?
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I've done both and reporting to just one boss is usually the most efficient way to run a department, since the employee only has to please one person, instead of waiting for the managers to agree on what they want done, when they want it done, how they want it done, and the order they want tasks performed.
I've had to send notes to all the managers I've reported to, and had each one tell me a different task to perform, in a different way, due at different times, and completed in different orders. I finally told the managers to come up with a plan, and if they could agree on one, let me know what they wanted done. Usually, the least important things related to my job no one cared how I did, the rest they never could agree on what I did, so I just did what I could. It was a useless exercise in futility. Running a department or company by committee wastes tons of time.
Some employee do have multiple bosses; others report to one person directly and another on a dotted-line basis. It depends on how the company is structured, what the job is, and where the boss and employees are located (for example, an employee who reports to a boss in a distant location could have a dotted line report to a different boss that is at the same site.)
It would take a lot of typing to explain organizational design, but that is the concept you're talking about here - basically it means what organizational structure best supports the objectives of the company or department.
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