Thought you were doing grad/medical school prior to your current gig 🤔

Why do you think your admin serves no purpose or why his roles or responsibilities should be directly related to the people working under him.

Reading more on this I've come across this, figured you'd be interested

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/authrty.htm

I was, I was also working. I did a B.S. and M.S. in chemistry, worked full time during my B.S. and part time at a hospital lab during my M.S. in addition to my teaching obligations. I didn't work the year I was in medical school, but then dropped medical school and worked as a QC chemist before getting my current gig.

Some administration serves a purpose. There's certain people who manage our grant funds, and manage our benefits, and does our purchase order numbers, etc. etc. There doesn't need to be a hierarchy in administration though, and part of the purpose of tenure is to eliminate the hierarchy from consideration in research and patient treatment. Like, I work with the administration, but they aren't above or below me. They have their own roles to fill.

When I volunteered as a clinic (also something I did during my M.S. Them were busy years) there was the clinic administrator, the physicians, the physician assistants, the nurses, and the social workers. We could say the clinic administrator was there to make sure the clinical ran smoothly and to allocate resources, but she didn't really do that. Most of her job was getting us through audits and she played a very minimal role in the functioning of the clinic.

We have this idea that there needs to be a "boss" who runs everything, but really those bosses usually don't have a good idea of the real problems facing the workers once the organization gets above maybe 20 people. When I was a phlebotomist my boss had to work with a contractor who came in to tell us how to do our job better, and that contractor made us do our job in a way that I proved with math was the least efficient possible way to do things. Shit hierarchy like that is how you get middle management that actually just donks up the whole system and wastes resources. Some hierarchies have to exist, like the physicians have more education, training, and responsibility for the welfare of the patient so obviously in those matters they should be deferred to over the physician assistants. However a lot of the time the hierarchy actually has negative value like in my case as a phlebotomist.

So yeah, keep the good hierarchy, get rid of the bad hierarchy, flatten as much as you can. That sounds like a very good common sense idea that almost everybody would get behind.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Dec 24 2020 11:47pm