I ended up selecting "a" on #1, but I thought very hard about "b", because darn it, that's why my department hires work-study students....
...except that really, delegation in the workplace isn't primarily about having someone else do the stuff you hate; it's about having someone else do stuff because you have other important projects that you really need to do yourself. I don't mind at all standing by the copier and babysitting it through 500 copies of an order form. But it makes more sense to have the work-study do it so that I can spend time on more specialized tasks that I really can't delegate.
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Date: 2006-01-10 09:31 pm (UTC)...except that really, delegation in the workplace isn't primarily about having someone else do the stuff you hate; it's about having someone else do stuff because you have other important projects that you really need to do yourself. I don't mind at all standing by the copier and babysitting it through 500 copies of an order form. But it makes more sense to have the work-study do it so that I can spend time on more specialized tasks that I really can't delegate.