Delegation of responsibility — assignment of responsibility to another person for what you are responsible for yourself.
For the practical purposes of organizing people and groups of people to achieve results, it is useful not to divide responsibility, but to multiply it. If you delegated (transferred) it, this does not relieve you of responsibility. “The one who gives it is responsible for the execution of the order” — Charter of the Armed Forces.
Responsibility cannot be shared (between several people), it can only be multiplied. If my child has not done his homework, then both of us are responsible for this, and I, and the child, and not in half, but in full. If I am a leader and have assigned a task to a junior leader (team leader), then he is responsible to me, but this does not relieve me of responsibility. Responsibility only multiplies — for the two of us. And when we begin to share responsibility in the team — something broke and we all throw off 100 USD each, then no one will draw conclusions, this is already collective irresponsibility.
Delegation of responsibility and the ability to put oneself in the place of another
Delegation of responsibility is one way to put the other in your place (and for the other, it is a way to put yourself in the place of the other — that is, you). It is also a way to force a person to take into account the interests of other people. Delegation of responsibility is a counterbalance to the Personal view, an antidote to subjectivism, egocentrism and selfishness, when a person thinks only about himself and does not think about others. When everything connected with him seems more important or interesting to him. See Delegation of responsibility and the ability to put oneself in another’s shoes.