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Originally Posted by First Lady
If we are truly running more efficiently we wouldn't need one manager for every four employees.
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One of the challenges of the current trend to contracting-out services is that you still tend to maintain the originanal manager to employee ratio even though the staff now work for another organization. In this situation, managers aren't supervising employees but setting policy, authorising payments/ budgets -- stuff that is usually beyond the paygrade of a clerk.
For example, there are managers responsible for highway maintenance that have no employees reporting to them but they are responsible for the actions/ budget / priorities of the contractors. Similarly, as AHS contracts out more services, the person overseeing budget, policies and contract compliance still tends to be of certain experience, knowledge, paygrade to make contractors stay on course.