https://stm2.bookpi.org/AIDAOPETCIL/issue/feed 2025-06-28T05:32:43+00:00 Open Journal Systems <p>This book covers a simple yet critical concept of delegation and how it impacts on overall performance of an organisation. The book is inspired by my own personal experience spanning decades in management. Through my experience, I have observed how a simple concept of delegation, when properly done, has an immense impact on performance in terms of increasing employees' job performance, job satisfaction, engagement and a sense of trust between the supervisors and supervisees. On the other hand, inadequate delegation of authority erodes trust, ultimately negatively impacting performance. This book provides insights on how various forms of delegation impact performance. This comprises legislative delegation, adjudicative delegation, monitoring and enforcement delegation and agenda-setting delegation. Besides providing insights for practice improvement, the book contributes to theoretical knowledge building in terms of expanding the utility of management theories such as organisation theory, social exchange theory and agency theory. The book relies on data collected from a multinational company which operates on various continents, hence it incorporates the aspects of cultural differences and perspectives on delegation. The book provides the reader with practical skills to be successful in delegation as a supervisor and also to successfully manage delegated authority to maximise organisational performance. This book was successful because of the efforts of the many great people, including colleagues at various workstations, former colleagues at graduate school, friends and family. They all contributed to inspiring me to write the book in one way or another. Without them, I would not have explored this topic on delegation with the precision contained in this book. </p> https://stm2.bookpi.org/AIDAOPETCIL/article/view/58 2025-06-28T05:32:43+00:00 Kennedy Akweyu Shikami [email protected]

<p>The study aimed at determining the effects of delegation of authority on organisational performance at Twiga Chemical Industries Ltd. The study was guided by four specific objectives, which include: determining the effects of legislative delegation, adjudicative delegation, monitoring and enforcement delegation and agenda setting delegation on performance at Twiga Chemical Industries Ltd. The study adopted a descriptive research design and a correlational research design. The target population in this study was 200 permanent employees of Twiga Chemical Industries Ltd in Nairobi. A stratified sampling technique was used in this study to come up with a desirable sample. Primary data was collected by use of questionnaires and utilised in this study to enhance the originality of the study. The questionnaires were administered to the randomly selected employees who were the respondents. The study used the quantitative method of data analysis. The collected data was edited, coded, keyed in and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The quantitative data was analysed using both descriptive statistics and correlations. A regression model was then used to show the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. Regression of coefficients results showed that legislative delegation and organisation performance are positively and significantly related at both 1% and 5% confidence level (<em>B</em>=0.284, <em>p</em>=0.032). The results further indicated that adjudicative delegation and organisation performance are positively and significantly related at 1% and 5% confidence level (<em>B</em>=0.319, <em>p</em>=0.011). The results further established that monitoring and enforcement delegation were positively and significantly related at 1% and 5% confidence level (<em>B</em>=0.334, <em>p</em>=.013). Similarly, results showed that agenda setting, delegation and organisation performance were positively and insignificantly related at a 5% confidence level (<em>B</em>=0.094, <em>p</em>=0.455). Based on the findings, the study recommended that organisations and firms should consider the delegation of authority as one way of enhancing organisational performance. The study further recommended that those in authority should be very careful when delegating authority, not to go overboard.</p>

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