Delegation

A person who has a defined realm of authority faces a situation which needs a decision and selects the decision making style…

Delegation:

Leaders defines for another:

• Responsibility for a specific area during a specific time period
• Accountability to report about how the assignment is progressing and/or was completed.
• Time and way in which assignment is completed.

In addition...

• Leader delegates authority and responsibility to (A), releasing (A) to act according to these various styles of decision making.
• Leader receives reporting from (A); encourages and resources.
• Delegated responsibility concludes as determined; final report given.

Reasons to use this style:

• To train someone else to be skilled/responsible in a given area.
• To release someone skilled to be responsible for a given area or task.
• To free the time of the person delegating for other tasks
• Person delegating is not able and/or willing to decide and/or carry out the associated tasks.