Employee Discretion – Another Way of Looking at Empowerment

There is a lot of talk these days about empowering employees to get the job done. To “empower” someone is to give or delegate power or authority to them—as in “She authorized her assistant to sign the papers”.
In the UK they tend to use the term “discretion” rather than “empowerment”. Discretion relates to individual judgment [...]

Are Hierarchies Obsolete in Today’s Dynamic Business World?

Several hundred large organizations around the world have applied an approach to organizing themselves called “Requisite Organization Theory”. This includes over 20 of Business Week’s “Most Admired U.S. Companies”. And yet you have probably never heard of it? This is not surprising as Requisite Organization Theory is not generally taught in US business schools and [...]