1 of our books and 1 talk define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
When managerial powers—like the power to hire, fire, set pay, determine priorities, or change the organization’s policies and structures—are dispersed out of the hands of managers and into the organization at large, we refer to this process as managerial devolution
— A Radical Enterprise, in “Chapter 3 - Imperative #2: Managerial Devolution”, Matt K. Parker
when you take those out of the hands of managers and you use some kind of process to disperse them into the organization at large, it's called managerial devolution
— Matt K. Parker · A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High Performance, US 2021 · at 14:38
See also devolution · bubbles · craft · devolution of management · fully devolved · fully devolved organization
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