Maintenance of intended delegation requires that decisions lying within the individual managers’ authority should be made by them and not referred upwards in the organizational hierarchy. This is known as– (A) principle of unity of command (B) scalar principle (C) authority level principle (D) principle of absoluteness of responsibility  

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Answer: authority level principle

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