Is there any order to a Corporate structure?

Working for a corporation is entirely different than working with a small business. There are a bunch of middlepersons that one must go through to get to the top person, yet when it comes to fulfilling duties, there is a large trickle down method used for diffusion of responsibility. It is necessary to delegate responsibility to others in certain management positions but to what extent is it to be designated when it finally hits an end of the line. You can only require people to do so much before their actual job description is pushed to the side and they are doing the labor that someone above could have performed, even had more time to perform than the persons that have finally been designated to do so. Should the person at the end of the line be upset? This is where it could go one of two ways, sure there could be a gray area, but lets focus on the simple one way or the other. First, it could be that the person would not be upset if they are able to manage all of the new responsibilites without it preventing them from getting their job done. Second, it could affect them negatively if it seems to take precedent over what they are doing and there has been no clear direction of what is priority. In the second situation, time management is not an issue, what is an issue is prioritizing. Unfortunately, corporate structures forget the simplest things and then leave the persons doing to work without any indication of what is priority. Remember, at the bottom of the ladder, there are many leaders above and if one discrepancy begins to appear, then it creates a stressful environment that proceeds into a domino effect that not only slows production and prevents attainment of goals but also creates undue chaos. It is ok to delegate responsibility if needed, but make sure that there are clear expectations of priorities and expectations to those that it is being delegated too. If you give me an assignment that is not part of my normal job, please do specify if this should take precedents everytime, just this time, or for me to work it into my time management objectives and goals. With this little effort from managers, it will not only increase production, but will also prevent turnover and churn and promote a healthier and less stressful work environment. Take a look at this link: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hr014.