task delegation
Distributing jobs outward
Task delegation is assigning work to others rather than doing it yourself.
The term appears in management contexts where distributing responsibilities improves efficiency: Effective task delegation frees up time for strategic thinking.
Good delegation involves matching tasks to people's skills and giving them authority to complete the work: She's learning to trust her team through task delegation.
- assignGive as responsibility
- hand offTransfer to another person
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- handoffDirect physical exchange
- pass the buckTransfer responsibility elsewhere
outsource · manager · subordinate · authority · empower · workload · plate spinning · distribute · allocate · trust · oversight · micromanage · prioritize · to-do list · deadline · drop the ball · accountability · direct report
task delegationself-reliance
Depending on oneself alone
solo work · going it alone · one-man show · solo performance · independent work
task delegationmicromanagement
Excessive supervisory control
centralized control · command and control · bottlenecking · hovering
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