Did you hear the one about………….. Delegation?

Delegation is the establishment of a pattern of authority between a superior and one or more subordinates. Specifically delegation is the process by which managers assign a portion of their total workplace to others.

Everybody who’s anybody delegates, CEOs, the president, military commanders all delegate. The primary reason for delegation is to enable the manager to get more work done. Subordinates help each the manager’s burden by doing major portions of the organizations work. In some instances, a subordinate, a subordinate may have more expertise in addressing a particular problem than the manager does. Step: 1 Step: 2 Step: 3 Manager Manager Manager Manager Assigning responsibility Granting authority creating accountability Manager Manager

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For example, the subordinate may have had special training in developing information system or may be more familiar with a particular product or geographic area. Delegation also helps develop subordinates. By participating in decision making and problem solving, subordinates learn about overall operations and improve their managerial skills.

Parts of delegation process:
There are three parts of delegation process.
01. The manager assigns responsibility or gives the subordinate a job to do. The assignment of responsibility might range from telling a subordinate a job to do. The assignment of responsibility might range from telling a subordinate to prepare to place the person in charge of task force.
02. The manager may give the subordinate the power to requisition needed information from confidential files or to direct argue of other workers.
03. The manager established the sub ordinates accountability.

In the following case,

Question 01: What do you see as the potential major problems with the delegation relationship between the talk show host and their writers?
ANSWER:
There are many problems faces by the delegation process. In the talk show the host and the writer also faces some problem. Such as, * The inability to take proper decision by the writer and the host or both. * Lack of enough material to fill hour every day with full of jocks and entertainment. * Lack of relaying of the writer. * Lack of effectiveness. * Inability to understand the host by the writer. * Lack of trust. * Lack of appropriate planning. * The host must be delegated minded.
Generally this kind of problem can be faces by the host and the writer on the talk show.
Question 2: More traditional job setting that might have similar working relationships between managers and their subordinates:
Answer: More traditional job setting that might have similar working relationships between managers and their subordinates are given below –

1. Hiring accountant to an organization: When a company hires an accountant it assigns responsibility to the accountant to do journal, ledger or any other specific tasks. The manager may give the accountant the proper power to requisition needed. The assignment of responsibility might range from telling him to placing the person in charge of a task force. Finally the company establishes the accountability of the jobs. When a manager and a subordinate have developed a good working relationship the major parts of the process may be implied rather than stated.

2. Reviewing budget: The task of budget analyzer is to Inform department managers of due dates for the submission of budget information, Inform department managers of due dates for the submission of budget information. Inform department managers of due dates for the submission of budget information. And the relation between managers and subordinates is that the subordinate report his manager for a particular job and submit the particular tasks. Another task of the budget analyzer is to examine capital budget requests. The working relationship between manager and their subordinates is as similar as following.

Question-3: In addition to delegation how do other elements of organizing relate to the setting of talk show hosts?
Answer: Organizing is deciding how best to group organizational elements just as children select different kinds of building block. There are six elements of organizing.

1. Designing jobs 2. Establishing reporting relationship between jobs 3. Distributing authority among jobs 4. Co-coordinating activities among jobs 5. Differentiating among positions
Like delegation there some other element which has seriously impact on the talk show hosts. First of all, the impact of designing the job.
Job design:
The first building block or organizing process is designing the job. Job designing is the determination of an individual work related responsibilities.
On the case of talk show hosts, the impact is that the responsibility to maintain the whole show lies only on the host. The career of the host and the organization both are also implies on him. So the work related responsibility of running the show lies on the host.
There are parts of job design. * Job specialization * Job rotation * Job enlargement
Job specialization:
The degree to which the overall task of the organization is broken down and divided into smaller component parts.
Job rotation:
An alternative to job specialization that involves systematically moving employees from one job to another.
Job enlargement:
An alternative to job specialization that involves giving the employee more tasks to perform.
In the following case, if the host is not satisfied by the job he can take the job rotation process. If needed, the producer of the director of the show can also apply the job enlargement process also.

The most common relationship among the blocks of organizing and talk show setting is the distributing work to subordinates. This is a basic block or element of an organizing by which the manager ease his burden and able to have more relax because a subordinate may have more expertise in addressing a particular problem than the manager does which is an element of organizing. In the talk show a host must delegate from producers to directors to joke writers. In the TV show comedians use physical humor, voice control, and comic timing but in the end they are only as funny as their joke writers make them.
So there is clear relationship among the elements of organizing that involves distributing work to other with the setting of the talk show hosts.
A TV host has to complete these steps too for delegating and distributing work among subordinates. At first he has to assign responsibility to his subordinates or co-workers. After that he should give granting authority to his subordinates and then he has to check the accountability of the project made by the subordinates.

Question 04. How might new and emerging technologies change the working relationships between talk show hosts and their writers?
ANSWER: The new and emerging technologies change the working relationships between talk show hosts and their writers. When new technology comes, the users of the following technology face many positive sides and the negative side also. The new technology comes with new facilities. That helps them much, but when something new comes there is some new process to run the program. This may not be familiar to the users. Same problem is faces here by the hosts and their writer here.
The benefit and the advances of new technology of the host and the writer are discussed below:
The positive side of new technology: * A new show will be present with new facility in state of the old one. * The new technology makes the host smart. * The smarter program there is the more popularity can be achieved. * The program will be more attractive. * Writers can write down jocks more easily. * For meeting the needs of the new generation the technology is essential.

The negative side of the new technology: * The host and the writer may not be so much familiar with the new technology; this may create problem. * The new technology can create imperfectness of the host and the writer * For the new technology the popular style can be changed * There is risk of new technology, such as new technology may be more critical to use, it may be cost more than the older technology, or the inability of using new technology.

Question 5: Identify three types of talk show and comment on how delegation in those shows might be similar or different from late night shows.
Answer: Three types of talk show are given below:

1. Music talk show 2. Sports talk show 3. Serious news show

1. How music talk shows delegation relates to late night shows: The delegation process in a music talk show is different from the delegation process in the late night shows. Because in the late night shows the hosts relies on the co-workers to make them appear pompous. The hosts material and ideas are submitted by the freelance writers. Comedians use physical humor, voice control, but in the end they are only as funny as their joke writers make them. But in a music TV show the host does not completely rely on his subordinates. The host of a music TV show has to be more practical and will have to ask question on the basis of the musicians answer thus the sense of humor need to be developed in this case.

2. How sports talk show relates to late night shows: The delegation process in a sports talk show is different from late night shows. In a sports talk show the hosts do not rely at subordinates or co-workers at all. Mostly he collect and gather specific information about that sports. But in the late night shows, the hosts completely rely on delegates. The idea of the coordinators or writers run the program.

3. How serious news shows relates to late night shows: The delegation process of serious news shows are similar to late night shows. In a serious news show, the subordinates or coordinators collect information about thehg serious news and the hosts present the news. The host completely rely on the information given by yhe subordinates. And in the case of late night shows the host is very much dependent subordinates. The coordinators or writers give him the main concepts to present in the stage. Then the host verify it and use his physical humor to present it.