What is delegation of authority and responsibility?
Delegation of Authority and Responsibility:
- Authority means the right to command and also power to act.
- Responsibility is the obligation to that a duty is allocated, to carry out the duty.
- One of the fundamental principles of management is parity of authority and responsibility also. The principle states that within delegating, managers should match responsibility of subordinates along with grant of commensuration authority.
- Primarily the subordinate is specified a responsibility of achieving certain described objectives. After that he is specified the authority in right amount to achieve such objectives. Difference of either one will make imbalance.
- In delegation the manager transfers part of the legitimate authority to a subordinate except with parting along with the eventual responsibility that has been entrusted to him by his own superior.
- Thus, in the concept of delegation, delegation of authority is more significant than responsibility, because responsibility can’t be delegated through a superior as he is even accountable for the original authority vested into him. Conversely, the subordinate to the delegated authority is responsible for exercising the authority to attain the tasks allocated to him.