Rae,

Interesting topic!

At my old employer (large aerospace corporation), general delegations of authority were done by using a standard form, which was submitted to the Accounting department.  On the form, each separate delegation (e.g., petty cash approvals up to $250, removal pass for company-owned property) had to be spelled out.  The forms were kept on file until superseded.  Additionally, enterprise systems (e.g., timekeeping, procurement) that utilized approvals based on the privileges associated to a user's login would need to be individually updated to reflect the specific authority granted to users outside of any based solely on their labor grade.  The person or department with rights to make these changes would retain such requests as long as the change was in effect.

Where I work now (a law firm) there are an increasing number of automated workflow systems that base procedural approvals solely on job role (e.g., senior partner, director, supervisor).  Administrators assigned to those workflow tools have the ability to set up temporary or permanent delegations for those approvals, but such a delegation must be requested and approved by the original approver.  These requests are retained by the system administrator who processed the change as long as it's in effect.

Hope this is of some help.

Pilar C. McAdam, CRM
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