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Principle of Delegation

Delegation involves assigning authority and responsibility to subordinates to carry out specific tasks, empowering them to make decisions. Effective delegation allows managers to save time and develop employees' skills, while poor delegation causes frustration. Key principles of delegation include delegating by results, ensuring competence, building trust, providing adequate authority over responsibilities, maintaining unity of command, accepting absolute responsibility, communicating adequately, exercising effective control, providing rewards, and being receptive to subordinates' suggestions. Delegation benefits both subordinates' development and managers' ability to develop successors for leadership roles.

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Principle of Delegation

Delegation involves assigning authority and responsibility to subordinates to carry out specific tasks, empowering them to make decisions. Effective delegation allows managers to save time and develop employees' skills, while poor delegation causes frustration. Key principles of delegation include delegating by results, ensuring competence, building trust, providing adequate authority over responsibilities, maintaining unity of command, accepting absolute responsibility, communicating adequately, exercising effective control, providing rewards, and being receptive to subordinates' suggestions. Delegation benefits both subordinates' development and managers' ability to develop successors for leadership roles.

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Principle of Delegation

Arellano University Master of Arts in Nursing Administration & Management

Submitted by: Michael Janrick G. Rivera RN Submitted to: Salome Dalao RN, MAN Submitted on: December 8, 2012

I. Introduction Delegation is one of the important element in an organizational functions. Through delegation interrelations are created in an organization. There are certain principles which can be followed as guidelines for effective delegation. Delegation is one of the most important management skills. These logical rules and techniques will help you to delegate well. Good delegation saves you time, develops you people, grooms a successor, and motivates. Poor delegation will cause you frustration, demotivates and confuses the other person, and fails to achieve the task or purpose itself. So it's a management skill that's worth improving. II. Main Body Delegation empowers a subordinate to make decisions, i.e. it is a shift of decision-making authority from one organizational level to a lower one. Delegation, if properly done, is not abdication. The opposite of effective delegation is micromanagement, where a manager provides too much input, direction, and review of delegated work. In general, delegation is good and can save money and time, help in building skills, and motivate people. Poor delegation, on the other hand, might cause frustration, and confusion to all the involved parties. Delegation in IT network is also an evolving field. Here are the simple steps to follow if you want to get delegation right, with different levels of delegation freedom that you can offer. is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. It is one of the core concepts of management leadership. However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work Effective delegation is crucial for management and leadership succession. For the successor, and for the manager or leader too: the main task of a manager in a growing thriving organization is ultimately to develop a successor. When this happens everyone can move on to higher things. When it fails to happen the succession and progression becomes dependent on bringing in new people from outside. Principle of Delegation Principle of Delegation by Results: Purpose of delegation is to get the work done more effectively and efficiently by someone else. Principle of Competence: It should be secured that the subordinate should be competent enough to fulfill the assigned task. Principle of Trust and confidence: superior should trust in subordinate. Also the superior must have the confidence in the ability of subordinate to perform the duty.

Principle of Adequate authority for the Responsibilities: There must be enough authority granted to the subordinate in relation to the responsibility. Imbalance of authority and responsibility could damage the objective of delegation. Principle of Unity of Command: There must be unity in command. If you get different command from different bosses, there will be confusion and conflict which result in inefficiency of the subordinate. Principle of Absolute Responsibility: Responsibility is an obligation which can neither be delegated nor be transferred temporarily. Superior cannot escape the responsibility for the activities of his subordinates through delegation because it is the superior who has delegated the authority and has distributed duties. Principle of Adequate Communication: Free flow of information between the superior and his subordinates are a necessity. It will help the superior to take necessary decision on time. Also it will help the subordinate to understand the nature of the assigned duty and the degree of his authority and perform accordingly. Principle of Effective control: Superior delegates his authority to his subordinate, not the responsibility and should be ensure that the transferred authority is used properly. Principle of reward: An appropriate reward system to reward the subordinates will help the subordinates to take the more responsibility and assume more authority which will create a healthy environment and the growth of the organization. Principle of receptiveness: The superior who delegates authority should listen and accept the suggestions made by his subordinates to reach a healthy decision. Therefore, delegation needs and understanding between the superior and his subordinates.

III. Summary All in all, Delegation can be used to develop your people people and yourself - delegation is not just a management technique for freeing up the boss's time. Of course there is a right way to do it. These delegation tips and techniques are useful for bosses - and for anyone seeking or being given delegated responsibilities. As a giver of delegated tasks you must ensure delegation happens properly. Just as significantly, as the recipient of delegated tasks you have the opportunity to 'manage upwards' and suggest improvements to the delegation process and understanding - especially if your boss could use the help.

IV. References
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