🔍 Key Concepts

• Effective delegation versus poor management habits • Difference between a legitimate, professional assessment and emotional or personal issues (fear, lack of trust, desire for power) • Role of training, coaching, and experience in deciding when to delegate

💭 Think About

• Which option describes a manager making a reasoned judgment about employees’ readiness, rather than reacting out of fear or ego? • Which choices sound more like personal insecurity, and which sound like a professional evaluation of staff capability? • In good management practice, on what basis should a supervisor decide not to delegate a task yet?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which option is based on an objective evaluation of subordinates’ skills and readiness. • Eliminate options that are primarily about the manager’s emotion, fear, or desire for control, rather than about the task or the people. • Ask yourself: in a management textbook, which reason would be described as a sound, defensible reason to delay delegation until staff are ready?