Less or more oversight?
I’m always a believer that if you trust someone enough to let him do a job for you, then let him do it in his own terms. Additional oversight is not always the solution every time there is a failure in a deletegated task.
I agree with Tyler. If you have your boss always looking over your shoulder, you become more risk-averse. You just want to avoid making mistakes. More oversight may discourage “imaginative, long-run thinking”, and promote groupthink. Generally I prefer less oversight, make people more independent rather than more accountable. “Give them a culture of internal pride”. Then,, they will be accountable to themselves. See also Ibnu Khaldun on child rearing.
The question then is when to oversee and to what extent. To this I’m reminded of Ki Hajar Dewantara’s saying: “ing ngarsa sungtulada, ing madya mangun karsa, tut wuri handayani“. Leaders should be everywhere, playing different roles in different places.