Example of authority and responsibility principle in short

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Authority means right to take decisions and responsibility means being responsible to perform the job.
According to this principle there must be balance or parity between the authority and responsibility.

For example, if a person is given responsibility to produce 100 units in one week time but he is not given authority to purchase the raw materials. If there is no raw material available in the store-room as a result he could not complete the target of producing 100 units on time.

The worker cannot be blamed for not completing on time because he was given only the responsibility and not the matching authority to carry on the work. Excess of responsibility with less authority results in non-completion of job.

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