DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY IN NIGERIA CIVIL SERVICE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.8 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Delegation of authority is the flow or transmission of authority from top to the bottom of the organization. It is a process which involves the assignment or task or obligation, the transmission of authority for accomplishment of the task and the accomplishing of task.
In other words, delegation of authority is the decentralization of authority for collective participation in attaining the set objective of organizational goal.
There are different dispensations where delegation of authority is found in the economy. In political dispensation, group of people are elected or appointed as delegate.
In every established ministry or institution of federal government parastatals, there must be an area of authority delegated to different body the aid government even in tertiary institution.
Furthermore, every executive person either appointed or elected stands as delegate in that ministry before achieving the aims of the federal government. Every directive must be carried out in order of assignment to attain good result.
Authority gets delegated when a superior gives a subordinate the discretion to make decision. It is worthy to note that a superior can delegate authority which he or she has and cannot delegate the one he does not possess.
The important decision for a manager to make is to decide when and how to perform his managerial role i.e assigning task to his subordinate.
A top manager who cannot get the best out of his subordinate is not capable of heading the organization indeed and if he tries to handle every task by himself, he will become center productive. This is because he will be so slow in getting result since he is occupied with plenty of work to carryout and this will make him become center productive.A) BY increasing the awareness of the officers in the officers in the administrative division of the ministry and professional offices in the medical division to the existence of the public health section and its officers.
B) Joint seminar should be organized for the officers of both curative and prevention section of the ministry. Subject of common interest e.g material and child health nutrition, tuberculosis could be chosen for the seminar.
C) Public health unit, should be included in the training programme of the medical and administrative heads of the ministry.
D) Immediate action should be taken to except the ministry of health Enugu 355 staff in its headquarters and there are seven (7) major administrative department which control the entire ministry. Every department is under administrative that go on in the department. They are charge of staff welfare recruitments, promotion dismissals training pension and retirement of staff.
Public health service takes charge of heath of the citizen. They administer drugs to the public especially where there are no doctor on hospitals, for the purpose of good public health, the sewages and gutters and premises of individuals ought to be fumigated to fight mosquito and other related disease. Apart from the ministry of health, the health management board in an appendix that is attached to be ministry. The board handles to headquarters for proper investigation. The board was not all the health posts are under the local government and it is under the local government and it is the local government that take charge of them. This board was established in 1980 during the ministry regime and was political oriented. The board has its own administrative set up. These include administration, medical department, nursing and midwifery department pharmacy finance and supplies laboratory services and medical records. All the activities of the board accountable to be ministry of health the parent body.