Behind the Resource Domino: PART II: ALLOCATION

Resource allocation is a problem common to all levels and types of administrative positions. Existing resources are expanded (allocated) both to perform an organizational task and to acquire additional resources. If the leader successfully expends available resources to acquire still more resources in terms of people, materials and space, then a subsequent and equally important task is the allocation of these acquisitions to the various sectors of the organization. It is through the judicious distribution of essential resources to achieve acquisition of still more, in the one instance, and to the furthering of organizational aims in the other that the leader attempts to move the organization towards goals. His accountability as leader is fixed in how efficiently and effectively resources are deployed in the goal attainment efforts.