Bill is the Chief Executive Office of a
multinational corporation as such he has enormous responsibilities on his
shoulders. So, what he would often do to lighten his responsibilities is to
delegate to his underlings many of his functions without him carefully
assessing the function/s that he delegated.
After a year of operation, the board of
directors noted that the company was not financially healthy. There was low
morale among the workers because they were not receiving their salaries on
time and working conditions was very poor. Soon after, there was rebellion
within his subordinates and they called for the CEO’s firing. To save the
organization the CEO was immediately fired of the BOD.
To get to the bottom of the CEO’s dismal
performance the board of directors hired independent auditors to audit the
performance of the CEO. They found out that the CEO was fond of delegating his
functions without having a first-hand knowledge about the function to be
delegated.
For example, in the marketing department
he simply told his middle managers to market their products without providing
them the needed leadership on how to undertake it. He did the same thing in the
production department.
The CEO being the leader must always lead
the way for his organization and the people working for it. What does lead the
way means? It means that he should not just delegate with reckless abandon.
When he delegates he must know the work and function to be delegated.
This doesn’t mean that he would
micromanage his organization because this is counterproductive. What this means
is he has a clear grasp of the delegated functions and every function under his
organization for that matter.
A leader becomes a true leader when he
knows what he is doing and when he leads by example. Otherwise, he becomes a leader in name only, a leader which is
incompetent, averse to responsibility and can easily be deposed by his
subordinates. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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