🔍 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
đź’ 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?
âś… 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?