Delegation vs. Empowerment — What's the Difference?

Delegation is the assignment of authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. It is the process of distributing and entrusting work to another person.

Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority.

The act of delegating.

To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.

The condition of being delegated.

To equip or supply with an ability; enable

A person or group of persons officially elected or appointed to represent another or others.

The achievement of political, social or economic power by an individual or group.

An act of delegating.

The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power.

A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.

The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically).

(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

(South Africa) Government programs encouraging advancement of blacks.

(legal)Law of obligations The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

The act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.

A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.

A group of representatives or delegates

Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions