1. Yet another challenge for chief executives is to define their optimal span of control . 2. Urwick s application of the span of control to business was not met without criticism. 3. Reasons that leaders ignore the principle of span of control were also addressed by Urwick. 4. Theories about the optimum span of control go back to V . A . Graicunas. 5. Burleigh B . Gardner criticised span of control as prohibiting democratic participation within the organisation. 6. "Today it's a much shorter span of control . 7. The flatter organisational hierarchy means a broader span of control for most managers in the downsized organisations. 8. This restructuring affects department structures, organisation hierarchies, job descriptions, span of control , social interaction and so on. 9. Clausewitz also noted that the order of battle depends on the effective span of control by a commander. 10. One of its purposes in its early uses was to identify the span of control of'project management '.