the passing of the authority to perform a certain task or tasks to someone lower down in the hierarchy of the company The responsibility remains with the senior manager
The formal process whereby a health care organization gives another entity the authority to perform a function on its behalf Typical functions delegated include claim payment, credentialing, and utilization management
A delegation is a group of people who have been sent somewhere to have talks with other people on behalf of a larger group of people. He was sent to New York as part of the Dutch delegation to the United Nations. see also delegate
A form of impersonation that authorizes a server to act on a client's behalf, giving the server the ability to impersonate clients over the network See also impersonation
Assignment of a task, a responsibility, or authority by a manager to a subordinate
One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc
the implementation technique whereby an object or operation subcontracts all or part of its responsibilities to one or more server objects via message passing
The ability of an object to issue a message to another object in response to a message Delegation can be used as an alternative to inheritance Contrast: inheritance
The ability of an object to issue a message to another object in response to a message Delegation can be used as an alternative to inheritance Synonym: delegation [OMA] Contrast: inheritance
An act whereby one principal authorizes another principal to use its identity or privileges with some restrictions
The process by which an object passes on a message it has received to a sub-ordinate object If inheritance is not available in a programming language, delegation is the most viable alternative for avoiding code duplication and promoting code reuse
A way of extending a class in an object-oriented framework In object-oriented design methodology, delegation is a form of class composition
A technique that consists of using a more powerful abstract data type to implement a less powerful one, by using a subset of the operations on the more powerful data structure
(1) a group of people elected or chosen to represent others; (2) the process of empowering others in the down line of an organization to act with authority
The formal process whereby the head of a public body authorizes an employee or officer within the public body to perform certain duties or to exercise certain powers or functions of the head under the Act A delegation under the Act must be in writing
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 certificate which delegates all or some of an entity's authority to another entity for some period of time [x945]
(as a form of administrative decentralization) Transfer of responsibility for decision-making and administration of public functions to semi-autonomous organizations See the World Bank's Decentralization website
The ability of a method to issue a request in such a way that self-reference in the method performing the request returns the same object(s) as self-reference in the method issuing the request (See Self-Reference) [OMG] The ability of an object to issue a request to another object in response to a request The first object therefore delegates the responsibility to the second object
A person or a group of people who have been officially selected or appointed to represent others
The transfer of central government decision-making responsibility, together with administration of public functions, to semi-autonomous organisations not wholly controlled by central government, but still ultimately accountable to it
SD-UX provides a controlled access to depot-resident products: both the host where the agent is running and the user initiating the call (delegation) must have read access
The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates