DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY AS A MANAGEMENT STRATEGY (A CASE STUDY OF UNILEVER NIGERIA PLC ENUGU DEPOT, ENUGU-STATE)

ABSTRACT

It has been shown that delegation of authority is mostly not considered at the might time and at the might place in our society.  New organization are formed without a depute attention been paying to the acquisition of the head of delegating art the   appropriate. Time this explain why we have many posts and duties in a new and even old companies revering  vacant and undone 
The purpose of this study was therefore designed to examine the importance of delegations of authority and control on the every day life manager and how it affects his subordinates.  As one of the most success  full business organizaiton in Nigeria Unliever (NIG) PLC Enugu was used as a case study and to investigate the extent to which effective delegation of authority could lead to organizational excellence.
The thirteen item of self-structural questionnaire was raised and validated for fifty eight randomly selected managers of  the organization.  The chi-square (x2) statistic techniques was used in the test of hypothesis the major findings include that.
-Unavailability of information about the capability of the subordinate is not related to the efficiency at delegation of task by managers.
-Management willingness to have faith in the ability of subordinates is related to their efficiency at delegating task to their subordinates 
-There is no relationship between the  efficiency of managers at delegations of task and the feeling of insecurity by the managers.

-And finally for effective performance managers requires discharge satisfactory all alone. They should give delegation of authority a required probity as the plan capital equipment procurement utilization of financial materials and market resources.  It becomes necessary to assign some of functions to the subordinates for the purpose of achieving the goals of  the organization. Constant feedback is also necessary in order to advents costly mistakes from the subordinate.  Delegation does not relief a manager of his responsibilities not does it reduce their overall authority in the organizaiton.  The essence of all delegated function is to share the task in order to achieve greater overall efficiency
Also based on this source recommendation were also made which if properly adhere to would have a positive impact on the organizational overall effectiveness
 
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title page
Approval/ certificate  page
Dedication.
Acknowledgement 
Abstract
Table content 
List of table

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of study.
1.2 Statements of problem.
1.3 Purpose of study
1.4 Scope of the study
1.5 Research hypothesis  
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 limitation of the study 
1.7 Definition of terms
    References

CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 
2.1 The management  process
2.2 Delegation as a managerial behaviour
2.3 Principle for affection delegation
2.4 Benefits of delegation
2.5 Difficulties of delegation
2.6 Unilever (Nigeria) PLC
    Reference  

CHAPTER THREE
3.0 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research design 
3.2 Area of the study
3.3 Population of the study
3.4 Sample and sampling procedure techniques 
3.5 Instrument for data collection 
3.6 Validation of the instrument
3.7 Reliability of the instrument 
3.8 Method of data collection
3.9 Method of data analysis
    References 

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 DATA PRESENTATION & ANALYSIS 
4.1 Data presentation and analysis 
    Reference

CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION, RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION 
5.1 Discussion of result and findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Implication of the research finding
5.4 Recommendations
5.5 Suggestions for further research
    References
    Bibliography
    Appendix