The action of delegating consists of giving another person a certain responsibility. This implies that there are two subjects that intervene in this action: a delegate who acts as someone's representative and the person who decides to assign his obligation or responsibility, that is, who delegates.
It is delegated to another person because they are trusted or because it is useful to do so or as a test to know the capacity of the other.
The action of delegating in organizations and in the business environment
Organizations of a certain size usually have a hierarchical structure. In most of them it is quite common to act by delegation. Thus, if the president of an entity cannot temporarily exercise his functions, he must delegate to the vice president. Something very similar happens in the business world and when a manager cannot assume his responsibilities, he can delegate to someone who is trained to do so.
In any human group there is the need to delegate. In fact, in the army, actions are carried out by delegation, since an order is given by a senior official and this is carried out successively at different military levels.
In general, it is considered that delegating to other people is totally necessary, otherwise an organization loses effectiveness when it comes to solving problems that may arise.
Delegate in the educational process
In the traditional school, the teacher teaches and sets guidelines and the students are simple recipients of information and have no other responsibility. In the most innovative educational approaches, an attempt is made to delegate certain responsibilities to students.
For example, students with more abilities can help those who have difficulties to learn and for this to be possible the teacher must have partially delegated his responsibility.
Delegate in the individual training of children
In the formation of children it is also important that they gradually assume certain responsibilities. For this to be possible, their parents must delegate to their children, that is, they have to grant them a certain autonomy when deciding on some matters. For example, it can be positive for parents to delegate to their children things such as keeping order in their room and some daily tasks (walking the dog or throwing out the trash). The purpose of delegating certain actions has an educational and training nature.
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