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Reverse delegation

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, reverse delegation means: Passing responsibility for a delegated task back to the manager who originally assigned it.

In Turkish: tersine yetki devri

How it is used

Use when a manager ends up taking a task back; asking for advice alone is not necessarily reverse delegation.

Example sentences

  1. Reverse delegation occurred when I agreed to rewrite every report I had asked my team to prepare.

    The original owner of the delegation becomes the person doing the work again.

  2. She avoided reverse delegation by discussing options while leaving the supplier decision with her colleague.

    Support is provided without taking the delegated responsibility back.

Common collocations

  • avoid reverse delegation
  • recognise reverse delegation
  • delegateTo give part of your work, responsibility or decision-making power to someone else, usually a person in your team, while still checking that the result is achieved.
  • coachingA way of helping someone improve their skills and performance mainly by asking questions and guiding them to find their own answers, rather than telling them what to do.

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