What is delegation?
Delegation is the deliberate transfer of responsibility and appropriate decision authority for an outcome, while the manager remains accountable for setting conditions and supporting success.
Explore how well you choose work to delegate, transfer real ownership, and support delivery without taking it back.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does delegation mean?
Delegation is the deliberate transfer of responsibility and appropriate decision authority for an outcome, while the manager remains accountable for setting conditions and supporting success.
Why it matters at work
Delegation expands capacity and develops people only when ownership is real. Assigning tasks without authority creates dependency; disappearing without context creates avoidable risk.
What this assessment measures
Task & person fit
Choosing an outcome whose risk and learning value fit the person’s readiness.
Ownership & authority
Clarifying the result, boundaries, resources, and decisions being transferred.
Support & follow-through
Providing access and checkpoints without reclaiming control.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your delegation foundation
Your answers point to recurring situations where a simple routine could make this skill more reliable.
A useful delegation base
You already show this skill in some situations. The opportunity is to make it more dependable under pressure or ambiguity.
A strong delegation pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it in harder situations and focus on the dimension that trails the others.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Gary Yukl and Ping Ping Fu (1999), “Determinants of Delegation and Consultation by Managers”, Journal of Organizational Behavior.