AUTHORITY & DELEGATION DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
AUTHORITY Authority is the right to give orders & power to exact obedience Denotes certain rights granted to a position in an institution It is a willing & unconditional compliance of people, resting upon their belief that it is legitimate for superior to impose his will on them
ELEMENTS OF AUTHORITY Right to authority given by superior Legitimate Leads to right of decision making Is given to influence the behavior of subordinates Subjective
AUTHORITY V/S POWER POWER AUTHORITY 1. Broader than authority Narrower concept 2. Personal not institutional Institutional 3. Flows in all directions Downwards 4. No place in formal structure Arises from formal structure
SOURCES OF AUTHORITY Legal/ formal authority Traditional authority Acceptance theory Competence theory Charismatic theory
LIMITS OF AUTHORITY Physical limitations Economic limitations Social limitations Legal limitations Biological limitations Internal constraints Limited span of control
DELEGATIOn Delegation is an administrative process of getting things done by others by giving them responsibility. It refers to a manager’s ability to share his burden with others. It consists of granting authority or the right to decision making in certain defined areas & charging subordinates with responsibility for carrying through an assigned task
CHARACTERISTICS OF DELEGATION Takes place when a manager grants some of his power to subordinates Manager must possess what he wants to delegate Only a part of authority can be delegated Manager delegating authority can reduce, enhance or take it back Authority can be delegated not responsibility
ELEMENTS OF DELEGATION ASSIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY The superior asks the subordinate to perform a particular task in a given period of time GRANT OF AUTHORITY It is the power to order or command, delegated from superior, to enable the subordinate to discharge his responsibility CREATION OF ACCOUNTABILITY It is the obligation of a subordinate to perform the duties assigned to him