Experts,
It has been said that "Gang - plank permits direct comm. betw. the employees working at same level of authority. "
But, in ncert book it has been mentioned that- In case of emergency, a worker can contact CEO directly. How is that possible? A Worker $ a CEO do not work at same level. Please clear the concept experts.
Thankyou.
Gang plank is a shorter emergency route through which the workers lower in the authority chain can directly contact the persons of higher authority or those working in other scalar chains. Let us understand this with the help of the following example.
Scalar Chain refers to a pre-defined, formal path of authority and communication in the order of highest to the lowest. For example- if A is the CEO of an organisation and he has two paths of authorities under him. One, A-B-C and the other A-D-E. Everybody in the organisation follows this chain of authority for communication. For example, If C wants to contact with E then he will have to follow this formal path, as C→B→A→D→E. That is, C has to first contact the higher authorities (C →B→A) over him who then transverse the communication to E (A→D→E).
However, in case of emergency C may directly contact E through 'Gang Plank'. So, we can say that gang plank is a shorter emergency route through which the workers lower in the authority chain can directly contact the persons of higher authority or those working in other scalar chains.