A study of factors leading to delegation failure In monze Dstrict, Zambia

Abstract

This study was triggered by delegation failures by church elders in Monze district. The purpose of this project was to investigate the factors leading to delegation failure by church elders and company leaders in Monze district. Furthermore, the study purposed and developed a program and taught church elders and company leaders to delegate responsibilities to the rest of the church officers. The study employed the following methodology; chapter 2 reviewed the Bible passages on delegation, Ellen G. White’s writings on topics on delegation and what Seventh-day Adventist scholars and other writers have written. Chapter 3 employed quantitative research in the form of questionnaires, and discovered the factors that lead to delegation failure in all 13 churches and 9 companies.Qualitative research such as interviews was conducted in all 13 churches in Monze and discovered those that served as elders before, when and number of terms they served in the process of quantitative and qualitative research a lot of information was revealed as from the tables shown. The study results revealed the level on how much they understood about delegation and scores they got was also been considered. The information was provided in percentages from the results from Tables 4 to 25. The project included developing and implemented a program to solve lack of delegation. The core of the programme was three workshops, which covered guidelines on delegations. The training program was designed, conducted, and taught elder’s guidelines and reasons for delegating. Monze district is to be a model in delegation at conference and national level. The study of factors that lead to delegation failure was successful. The topic on delegation was understood in recent years. Elders discovered reasons for delegation and implemented what they learned at the workshop. Recommendations from the respondents were, 1. All heads of church departments be given such training at a district level in order to have mentors who would help teaching departments in their local churches and also to enable them work smoothly in their respective churches. 2. All church officers be instructed how to delegate their authority and share responsibilities to their subordinates in church departments. 3. Pastors of various districts should not neglect to teach this topic to church officers in their respective districts.