Effective Business Management with Proper Delegation Skills

By Adriana Barnes on October 11, 2010, 6:00 am

Effective delegation is probably the most important of the management skills but it is also the one that is least understood by many management personnel. A manager is responsible for and accountable for the quality and the quantity of the work being done under his direction. Responsibility for doing certain tasks can be delegated to others but accountability can not be delegated, it is the managers alone.

Delegation is an important and necessary part of a busy manager’s quiver of skills that needs to be implemented on a daily basis. It is impossible for a manger to accomplish all of the tasks that need to be done alone and it is not possible for workers to know what tasks they should accomplish without instructions and directions. A good manager will have an understanding of the personnel and other resources at his disposal. Using this information the manager can make informed decisions as to the tasks that should be allocated to the work staff.

The best manager’s delegate almost everything; their only job is to over see the overall success of the business venture. Many new, young managers find it very difficult to pass responsibility for completing tasks on to others. This is a skill that must be learned as it is the essential purpose of management level employees within a corporate structure.

Modern business school courses place a very heavy emphasis on learning how to effectively delegate responsibility to the people under you who are qualified to carry out the task efficiently. A manager task is to guide and direct, not to do.