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 [...]

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