With so many challenges faced by the managers everyday, the best way to handle and excel in one's task is DELEGATION.It not only proves to be one of the best way to manage your work but helps groom your subordinates and polish them to be as do as you.And only when you have sum one to take up your task that you can move forth taking up your boss's

1. DELEGATION
What is it?

2. I not only use all the brain I have,
but all I can borrow – Woodrow
Wilson

3. Delegation is ..
• Appointing a person to act on one’s
behalf.
• Entrusting of Authority, Power and
Responsibility to another.
• Delegation is also called Deputation
in the assignment of authority and
responsibility to another person.

4. Why Delegate ?
It takes a strong person and a good
leader to effectively delegate tasks.
• Delegate for Quality
• Delegate for Even Distribution
• Saves Time
• Develops people’s skill and ability

6. Why managers’ don’t
delegate
• The belief that, ‘I can do it better myself’
• Attachment with previous responsibility
• Lack of confidence and trust in subordinates
• Low self-confidence and insecurity
• Unwillingness to accept risk
• Time involved in explaining the task
• Fear of loss of power
• Lack of availability of competent subordinate
• Subordinates’ resistance to delegation

8. What to Delegate ?
• Things subordinate can do better
• Things subordinate needs to do for
growth
• Operational work
• Things for which you don’t have time

10. What not to Delegate ?
• What you yourself is not able to do
• What you are directly contributing to
your business
• Work your subordinates cannot
perform effectively
• Management Decision
• Personal Accountability

12. Successful Delegation
• Makes work easier
• Improves efficiency
• Increases employee effectiveness
• Develops employees
• Ensures that the right person does
the right job

13. Impact of Delegation
Good delegation Bad delegation
• Saves your time
• morale buster for
• Develops your people
the team
• Grooms a successor
• Motivates employees • May lead to bad
• Allows you to take up blood within the
bigger assignments team
• Improves productivity • Frustration
• Improves communication
• Improves trust
• Confusion
• Improves outcomes • Failure in
completion of work

14. Delegation Process
Determine what to delegate
Access skills required
Define the task
Supply authority and support
Check progress
Provide feedback and reward
success

15. While Delegating,
remember the 5 RIGHTS’ of
Delegation
• Right task
• Right circumstances
• Right person
• Right direction and communication
• Right supervision and evaluation

16. Refute the common
delegation errors
• Under Delegation
• Over Delegation
• Improper Delegation

17. Under delegation- Control
Freak
• Lack of trust/ Confidence
• Desire to complete the whole work
• Fear of losing importance
• Limitation of time
• Lack of clarity

18. Over delegation- Desk
Cleaner
• Don’t want any kind of load
• Quality work ISN’T their priority
• Freaks around
• Over-confident
• Poor management of time
• Feels insecure in their ability to
perform a task

19. Improper delegation
• Wrong time
• Wrong person
• Wrong reason
• Wrong task

21. Why subordinates don’t
accept delegation
• Perpetual dependence on superiors
• Lack of confidence
• Lack of positive incentive

22. Types of Delegation
• Downward delegation
• Upward delegation
• Sidewise delegation

23. Dual characteristic of
Delegation
• As a result of delegation the
subordinate receives authority from
the superior but at the same time
the superior retains all original
authority
• Therefore authority and responsibility
can be delegated by a manager, they
can never be abdicated.

24. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick
good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint
enough to keep from meddling with them when they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt

25. Delegation Vs.
Decentralization
Effective delegation of authority is a
pre-requisite for the success of
decentralization

26. Delegation Vs.
Decentralization
Decentralization can be called as
extension of delegation. When
delegation of authority is done to the
fullest possible extent, it gives use to
decentralization.

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