Manager's paranoia can be identified by how they view their authority, responsibility, and accountability. A manager with paranoia will want to only act within their strict authority and take responsibility only for direct results, despite their manager role. They may also take on too wide of accountability compared to their assigned role, as if wanting to act as the CEO. Creating awareness of the differences between authority, responsibility, and accountability can help avoid manager paranoia.

1. How to identify
Manager’s Paranoia

2. If a manager tend to think that he want to act only within his authority and
want to take responsibility only for the direct results of his work,
it is seemed that he wants to work as a common man in the company
despite of his position as a manager.
And if a manager tend to take too wide Accountability to compare his assignment,
it is understood that he want to work as CEO.
Commitment for too wide accountability with
poor back up of his authority and responsibility is nothing more than a
symptom of paranoia.
The paranoia can be avoided by creating awareness on for the difference in
Authority . Responsibility . Accountability.

3. Common Peoples Model
Authority Responsibility Accountability
For common people coverage of Authority, Responsibility & Accountability are same.
If a person is working as worker in production, he has been delegated the
authority to decide all detail of his work as far as keeping operation standards.
He is responsible for his production work and he is responsible for the quality of products
that he had made too.

4. Managers Model
Authority Responsibility Accountability
In manager, the appropriate coverage of his accountability is expected much wider than
his responsibility. Much wider coverage of accountability of a manager than his
responsibility shows his entrepreneurship and his ownership for his assignment

5. CEO’s Model
Authority Responsibility Accountability
The CEO of a company has largest authority as the highest hierarchy person in the company, and
he is accountable for the all result of his company operation. His responsibility to act his job
is limited because of delegation of authority to his subordinates

6. How to identify
Manager’s Paranoia
Thus a Managers Paranoia can be identified by clearly defining work coverage's
followed by continual awareness & evaluation. This should be a part of culture too.
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