Business GCSE
Delegation
What Delegation means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
Definitions of Delegation
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Reference: AQA
Passing authority to subordinates to complete tasks, which can motivate staff.
Passing authority and responsibility for a task down to a subordinate, while retaining overall accountability.
The passing of authority to perform tasks to employees lower down in the organisational structure.
Passing authority and responsibility to someone lower in the organisational hierarchy.
Topics that use Delegation
- Influences on business (AQA GCSE)
- Organisational structures (AQA GCSE)
- Organisational structures and different ways of working (OCR GCSE)
- The role of human resources (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Chain of Command
- Delayering
- Span of Control
- Hierarchy
- Job description
- Person specification
- Adapting the marketing mix to external pressures
- Application of business concepts to context
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