The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can. - Douglas McGregor

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

If there is a single assumption which pervades conventional organizational theory, it is that authority is the central, indispensable means of managerial control.

Delegation means that he will concern himself with the results of their activities and not with the details of their day-to-day performance. This requires a degree of confidence in them which enables him to accept certain risks. Unless he takes these risks there will be no delegation.