by Suzy Hitchcock, ICML, July 2015 | Increasingly, managers are looking to third-party organizations to verify that their staff members are competent and ready to perform in the roles to which they are assigned. This is largely due to narrow margins that demand mistake-free production and to cutbacks that have spread managers thin. Their increased span of control makes it difficult for these managers to obtain and maintain technical expertise in all the fields over which they are responsible. Third-party certification offers a means by which they may assure that those who report to them are competent. For some managers, it may also serve as the mechanism by which pay levels are determined…
Article linked here with permission of “Machinery Lubrication Magazine”
