Delegation

Effective delegation demands skill, patience, and trust. Delegation becomes successful when a manager deliberately chooses a reliable employee to carry out a specific task. Delegation allows the manager time to complete other responsibilities or more time to focus on tasks only the manager has the knowledge or skill to complete. Finding the right employees to delegate tasks can result in balance between the employee and the manager. With delegation a manager will have successfully established a system to aid in the effectiveness of the team's planning, organizing, leading, and controlling skills.

Delegating tasks has its down side as well. If the employee does not live up to the manager's expectations by completing the task, the task then befalls back on the manager to complete. This all goes back to finding a confident and reliable employee to do the job. Ensuring the employee is aware of your expectations, has the authority to achieve the expectations, and the knowledge of how to complete them will aid in successful delegation.

Managers in my company have diverse management styles. Certain managers only delegate specific tasks to specific employees. Other managers rotate the tasks throughout his or her staff. After conducting a survey, I discovered the managers who delegated specific tasks to specific employees deemed they had the most success in getting the job done. The managers ensured he or she had established a system in which the employee was comfortable or confident in the responsibility rendered, knew the manager's expectations, and had the available resources. Since each person and each task holds some uniqueness the manager felt it suitable to impart the tasks according to what he or she felt the employee could handle. Giving out tasks in variation could be