Chapter 11: Administrative Management

• One aspect of administrative management is dealing with personnel issues which include separation of duties and job rotation. 
• Separation of duties:
• The objective is to ensure that one person acting alone cannot comprise the company's security in any way.
• High-risk activities are broken up into different parts and distributed to different individuals or departments this prevents any one person from having too much authority. 
• This decreases the changes of fraud unless collision is committed. Collision is when more then one person is needed to commit an act against policy. 
• Separation of duties can help prevent mistakes and minimize conflict of interest that can take place if one person is performing a task from beginning to end. 
• E.g. a programmer should not be the only one testing her own code. 
• Job rotation:
• Over time, more then one person fulfills the tasks of one position within the company. 
• How job rotation is helpful for the company is that this allows the company to have more then one person who understands the tasks and responsibilities of a specific job title. This allows for backup and redundancy when a person leaves a company or is absent. 
• Job rotation also helps identify fraudulent activities.