Abstract
There is a general feeling among employees that senior managers do not delegate adequate authority to their subordinates even in cases of routine assignments. This notion is further strengthened when managers working on the middle or sometimes even top management levels are seen running around checking and sometimes even carrying out petty tasks like preparation of slides for presentations, inspecting seating arrangements for functions and supervising trivial tasks. At times, young employees get flabbergasted over the personal concern of seniors in the form of painful close supervision of those matters which have already been assigned to subordinates. As a matter of fact, instead of delegating appropriate authority to subordinates to carry out their assigned tasks, many managers tend to centralize even the little authority originally vested in junior positions. From organization’s side, there seems to be no check on whims of “men of authority” as far as centralization of authority is concerned. On the other hand, resistance from the employees against unjustified, even unlawful in some cases, centralization of authority appears in the form of a “whimper” rather than a forceful protest.
Mr. Javed Iqbal . (2007) Why Managers Don’t Delegate And How To Get Them Do So?, Journal of Managerial Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 2.
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