Before I directly spill my topic for today, I’ll let you guess it for me first. Clue? Trust and commitment. Now where do you think these two are required? No, I’m not implying these with relationships. Rather, I’m implying these with delegation of authority. Yes, trust and commitment as a foundation are not only for relationships but it can also be found in management.
Authority is the empowerment by formal job classification - make commitments and act behalf the organization. In the delegation of theory, as it was mentioned a while ago, it requires trust, commitment and contracting between supervisors and employee. It pertains to the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person in order to carry out a special task. To understand it further, I’ll provide two examples, wherein the second one is related to management.
As a working mom, you’re too busy to look after your children. Though it will be hard for you, you’ll entrust your responsibility of taking care of them to a nanny. However, if something wrong happens to them, you are still held responsible because in the first place, you should be the one taking care of them, not the nanny. Though I understand you’re working your butt off just to give them a good future, still you’re their mom.
Now with regards to management, imagine you’re the boss and you wanted to take a day off, scheduling a trip out of town. However, on that day, you will be meeting with a very important person to make a business deal with. So you assigned your secretary to prepare because he’ll be the one who’ll go on the meeting. Unfortunately, the talk didn’t go too well. You can’t blame your secretary of what happened for the reason that you are still accountable of the outcome.
I’ll end up this blog with a quote that I think everyone should always be reminded with. As Haile Selassie said: There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the once cannot escape or evade the other.
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