Delegation is the action and effect of delegating (granting a person or group the necessary faculties and powers to represent another person or others). The one who represents another is known as a delegate. It can also refer to a transfer of tasks, functions, attributions and authority, which takes place between a person who occupies a higher position, a lower hierarchical one to operate in a limited and close field, generally with a specific objective.
Delegation is one of the main aspects of a boss's work, because if he does not know how to delegate, or does not delegate it properly, his results will surely not be as expected and will weigh him down with an excessive load of functions and activities..
One of the most common uses that is given to the word delegation is to designate each of the offices with which a company or organization in different parts of the world. Some organizations, such as the United Nations (UN) and those large multinational companies, often have offices on the various continents of our planet.
The term is also used to name the team or working group that represents a community or a country. For example: "The Chilean delegation arrived floor Africa after fourteen hours of flight", "A Chinese delegation met with Uruguayan President to discuss a possible agreement bilateral trade", "The governor was very angry with the delegation of the company North American". who tried to violate internal regulations ".
In the field of administrative law, the concept of delegation refers to the transfer from a higher to a lower body of the exercise of a competence, although the delegator retains ownership of it. This operation is specified through an administrative act and can be revoked by the delegator.
For computer science, this term is an object-oriented programming mechanism that implies the assignment of a certain functionality from one class to another. It differs from inheritance by its selective reuse.
It is also used in terms of political, administrative and provincial divisions within a country. The city of Mexico, for example, is divided into sixteen delegations, in turn, are subdivided into districts and neighborhoods.
