People and Organizations-MN7181

Delegation and Empowerment

Delegation and empowerment are important two skills needed to be a successful leader. A effective leader can deliver huge outcome without becoming overload.This is critical to maintaining organizational effectiveness, developing the team skills and obtain fruitful outcome by reducing stress of individually and as a team. In order to get the maximum outcome responsibilities should be distributed effectively considering the abilities, skills and the capacity. At the same time leader should maintain some level of control over the process. Monitoring and periodical reviewing should be done systematically(Krakel, 2018).

Even though the both used for the same purpose of employee management, Significant differences can be identified. If you need to get the maximum out come Both techniques should be used effectively, however they are most effective when used specifically for a particular situation and also depend on attitude of manger and the employee. Main difference is that empowerment raises leaders, and delegation raises followers. no matter what approach deployed , the control should be with manager. The manager role is still remains as assigning tasks and choosing who to assign them to.

If we describe the technique ,when employees are Delegated to fulfill a task , Manager will expect to do it according to his standard. Actually employee will be provided with a deadline and time limit will be set and same authority or another supervisor may monitor the progress as well as guided.

On the other hand if Empowerment does employee will be provided with a wider range of information and the individual will be left to their own to furnish the task along taking ownership and the responsibility of the work(Venton, 1997).

So some level of power and authority is granted in empowerment.However if  empowerment to be successful , employees should be given required information. These components are crucial in order to give them true freedom provide fruitful result. Even though manager are reluctant to adhere to Empowerment since it includes more than assigning task but transferring some power . At the same time some managers prefer to delegate their significance as they feel like empowering their team is important and it is essential to  lose their power and significance to their role to gain more outcome.empowerment is more beneficial and productive in the long run .All though it seems like time consuming in the beginning, An empowered team is more energetic and enthusiastic and work efficiently and prefer to to go the extra mile as they take it personally. As an example front liners can solve and provide some solutions to the customers with in their given authority while saving customers and Organizational time and cost. It would be more efficient that the Empowerment delegated to the most suitable individual. It prove benefits to the Organization and become a motivational factor to the Employee(Burch, 2018).

Delegation and empowerment should be used as a primary tool when leading your teams. It is a powerful way of diversifying a person’s role, whilst keeping them fresh and motivated. It can also act as a way of developing your team’s skill and abilities.

Reference

Krakel,K. 2018. Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation. University of Bonn and IZA.

Venton, P., 1997. GENERAL THEORY OF DELEGATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND EMPOWERMENT., Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation., Vol. 12.

Burch, J,. 2018. Differences Between Empowerment & legation.