EVALUATION OF BARRIERS TO THE DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY IN FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS WILLIAMS (P.M)
| dc.contributor.advisor | MASSARIK, FRED | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | KASSARJIAN, HAROLD | |
| dc.contributor.author | WILLIAMS, PATRICK MEACHAM | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-14T09:26:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-14T09:26:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1966 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Managers, in all organizations, confront the problem of hwi; best to use and delegate whatever constitutes their authority to make decisions. Surveys have suggested that ineffective delegation ranks among the most common management problems. This study has sought to examine the manager's attitude toward his own ability to effectively delegate authority. In so doing it attempts to improve our understanding of the manager's perception of and solutions to the problem of delegation. A number of "barriers" to effective delegation hypothesized by articles and surveys were grouped into categories associated with the manager, his subordinates and his organization. Sixty-five respondent managers were then asked to evaluate the importance of each of these fifteen lorriers to delegation by means of numerical ratings, open-end written responses, and individual interviews. They were questioned as to other pojjsible barriers to delegation as well as the itinds of problems they faced and the way in which they utilized their timej the latter being thought to represent independent, if only approximate, indicators of the degree and quality of delegation taking place. A» hypothesized, seven barriers normally associated with the manager's subordinates were all rated as more of an obstacle to delegation than were five barriers associated primarily with the manager himselfr suggesting that he does indeed consider his subordinates to be principally responsible for whatever delegation effectiveness may be lacking. The single exception to this evaluation was the respondent's rating of his own qualifications to make a decision in place of his subordinates which, besides receiving the highest rating of the fifteen barriers evaluated, was over five standard errors above the average value of all ratings. By contrast, all three ratings of barriers ausociated with organization policy fell below the overall average rating. In spite of occasionally conflicting answers to the various questions, the respondents seem to exude considerable self-confIdencej lending support to the Importance they assign to their own ability as a principal barrier to delegation. They apparently prefer to "play it safe" and avoid taking a chance on a subordinate making the wrong decision. This Btudy reaffirms the mainager's view of his subordinates as constituting the n«iJor obstacle to improving authority delegation. It implies that if the major barriers to delegation rest with other than his subordinates, the manager is either not aware of It or else unwilling to admit to this possibility. In either case managers eeem to advocate better subordinate selection and training as a means of improving their delegation of authority,. Because of the respondents' tendency to point to both their superiors and subordinates as in some way Impetding delegation, one might suspect a similar reaction from the superiors and subordinates themselves Should such a suspicion be confirmed by further research, possibly in the form ot asking pairs of managers tor their perception of each others role in delegating authority, the burden ot Improving delegation ettectlveness would seem to rest with the organization and Its policies. Such policies might. It is suspected, guide the use ot authority, executive communication, and perhaps include a re-evaluation ot the nature ot authority itiielf. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | No . of references 84 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810098518 | |
| dc.keywords | BARRIER TO DELEGATION, RESEARCH DESIGN, TASK MANAGER, ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL, PRINCIPAL DUTIES | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 183p. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | EVALUATION OF BARRIERS TO THE DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY IN FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS WILLIAMS (P.M) | en_US |
| dc.sub | Economics | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | EVALUATION OF BARRIERS TO THE DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY IN FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS WILLIAMS (P.M) | en_US |
| dc.these.type | Ph.D | en_US |
| dc.title | EVALUATION OF BARRIERS TO THE DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY IN FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS WILLIAMS (P.M) | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |