Organisation · Decision rights · Component

Delegated authority schedule

The limits within which each role may commit money, people and contracts on its own, starting where the board’s reserved matters end.

The deliverable

What it is

The schedule turns decision rights into numbers. Where the register says who decides on hiring, the schedule says up to what salary, within what budget, and above which figure the decision moves up a level.

Its upper edge is set by Governance. The board reserves certain matters to itself; the schedule delegates everything below that line, and the two documents should meet with no gap between them.

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What it is made of

Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.

  1. Authority limits

    Per role and per type of commitment, the amount or scope up to which the role may act without referral.

    3 attributes: Role · Commitment type · Limit

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  2. The board boundary

    The point at which delegated authority stops and the board’s reserved matters, recorded in Governance, begin.

    2 attributes: Reserved matters · Last aligned

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  3. Approval and version

    Who approved the current schedule, when it took effect, and what changed from the previous version.

    3 attributes: Version · Effective from · Approved by

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Check the top of the schedule against the board’s reserved matters. Any decision that falls between the two has no owner.