The controls over action may be supervisory or procedural or both. The second dimension of accountability, the impact of a job on end results, is measured in four degrees of increasing effect. The task is performed as a task with little recognition of the use to which it will be put. Interpretive, advisory, or facilitating services for use by others in taking action. Decisions are made and action is taken by others as a result of information, data or counsel provided by the incumbent.
Results accrue on the basis of joint actions.
Results produced are directed and controlled by a single individual. The third and final dimension, magnitude, relates to the impact individual jobs have on certain organization budgets. Depending on the overall size of an organization, the magnitude width of the accountability factor changes. To determine accountability magnitude, one must first select the most appropriate impact of a job. The effect produced depends on the ripple and the size of the object it strikes.