Management
Management classes teach that delegation is an important concept in a managerial environment. All forms of delegating need not take place in the context of a contract: Delegation in a general sense refers to one's authority and right to pass along certain responsibilities to another, such as a manager's delegating responsibility to an employee for the purpose of the employee's completing a particular task. The primary purpose of delegation in a business environment is efficiency, in the sense that tasks may be completed more quickly by delegatees (i.e., employees) while the delegators (i.e., managers) focus on supervising the quality of work of a larger number of delegatees.

Similar to delegation in a contractual context, delegation in a managerial context usually does not remove the manager's obligation to have the task completed in the event that a delegatee fails to perform his or her task. Often, an employee's inadequate performance reflects poorly on the manager who delegated the task, even though the duty to perform was transferred to the employee. Therefore, whether delegation takes place in the context of a contract or a managerial environment, the delegator should be relatively active (compared to an assignor) to ensure that the delegatee is performing as expected, thereby increasing the likelihood of recognizing efficiency in either context.

Source: Angelo Kinicki and Brian K. Williams, Management: A Practical Introduction (New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006), p. 250.