One Boss

In bureaucracies it is said a person should have only one boss. If knowledge is our boss, what is our president or dean or department chair? Helpful, I would hope. But not directive. In fact, if administrators feel some need to motivate the faculty to work in a certain way, they make the assumption that faculty do not find that work meaningful. In meaningful work, one needs no extrinsic motivation, only time and resources.

(Seivers, 1994)