The area of activity, number of functions, people, or things for which an individual or organization is responsible
Span of control is a term originating in military organization theory, but now used more commonly in business management, particularly human resource management. Span of control refers to the number of subordinates a supervisor has
The number of individuals managed by a single supervisor The manageable span of control for one supervisor ranges from between three to seven individuals, with five as optimum See also control
The ratio of subordinate employees or organization units to a manager or supervisor The optimum span of control is influenced by many factors (the nature of the work, the type of departmentation used, the competence of employees, the presence of automated information systems, etc )
The number of people who must have an officer's attention for briefing, reporting, passing instructions or other incident management concerns, in order to carry out their role at the incident