At 9:15 A M., Jane Wright, the hotel's director of sales, finds that an important client will be at the hotel at 11 A M. to tour the property. She needs an executive suite prepared as a show room. No one answers the phone in the housekeeping department, so she rushes to the eighth floor, interrupts three room attendants cleaning check-out rooms, and directs them to clean and prepare suite 801. Trudy Smith, the eighth-floor housekeeping supervisor, becomes very upset when she finds the room attendants in 801. Preparing the show room will put her staff six rooms behind schedule on a busy day when they are already shorthandeD Trudy loses her composure, yells at the room attendants, and places an angry call to Jane Wright. From the point of view of Trudy, the housekeeping supervisor, which of the following management principles has been violated?
- Supervisors should have the authority and information necessary to guide the efforts of employees under their direction.
- Supervisors should be well-informed about the limits of their authority.
- Each employee should have only one supervisor.
- Employees should have the authority and responsibility to make decisions affecting their work areas.
- The answer is not available.
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