What is Delegation and the Empowerment?

What is Delegation?

a. The authority is mainly delegated, so that the person to whom we delegate is able to make the needed contribution to the group work.
b. If the person to whom it is delegated does not take the responsibility, then the delegation of the authority will not work.
c. The principle of the delegation of the authority can only be made use of by assuming the responsibility.
d. Before carrying out the delegation, the person to whom the authority is delegated must be capable of undertaking the responsibility.
e. The delegation must fit into the description of the job.

What is Empowerment?
a. The empowerment of a person can be affected with the delegation of the authority.
b. During the delegation of the authority with the responsibility, the empowerment of the person to whom the delegation has been made for carrying out the job effectively, takes place.
c. In general, the word empowerment involves an individual, who must possess enough discretionary authority for deciding the way by which it should be handled.
d. In the process of the empowerment, one possesses the authority to do along with how to do it.
e. In this process, the main aim is to make an individual influential, so that he is able to perform the various tasks of the delegation.

Delegation of the power –
a. The concept of the delegation of the power can be understood in an efficient way only after understanding the basic difference between the authority and the power.
b. Authority is given by the organization whereas the power is the self cultivation of the influence.
c. The authority comes out of one’s organizational power but in the case of the power, the people can be made to work in a particular direction.
d. In the reference to the organization, the power can play a very critical role in influencing the people to work.
e. The power cannot be delegated but one point to remember here is that although the power cannot be delegated but can be supported by making a person more knowledgeable, giving him position and improving his knowledge of the human relations.
f. The influence generated by the power, can be developed due to the general support, which one may have for actions in an organization.