decision-making authority

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meanings of authority

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authority
noun
uk /ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/ us /əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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Examples of decision-making authority

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Women from non-participating households had lower decision-makingauthority in the choice of variety and in selling seeds for the next season.
These four concepts specify the degree of independent decision-makingauthority that non-national levels of governance exercise.
As expected, women from nuclear families with younger household heads have greater decision-makingauthority than those in joint families.
With intergovernmental economic decentralization, the center decentralized economic decision-makingauthority to local governments.
Instead, we view the state as an aggregation of actors with varying preferences who share decision-makingauthority.
They claimed that their decision-makingauthority is better than before.
Physician-owners are presumably motivated by greater opportunities for decision-makingauthority within health care delivery organizations and increasing personal income.
We are examining institutions that have been set up, but which vary in the degree of decision-makingauthority that has been granted to them.
Economists thus emphasize decentralizing economic decision-makingauthority from state organizations to individual enterprises.
The definition of issues often determines the location of decision-makingauthority and with it the scope of conflict over policy alternatives.
These paralegals gain their decision-makingauthority through their years of experience in interviewing protective order applicants.
By contrast, if economic decision-makingauthority is decentralized to local units, each unit can adapt its economic policies to the preferences of its local residents.
The simple hierarchy endows a single apex member with the decision-makingauthority in the system.
What factors influence women's decision-makingauthority or empowerment?
This means that decision-making takes place in arenas that are situated at several levels and that decision-makingauthority is dispersed across these various arenas.
The greater the number of economic units to which economic decision-makingauthority is decentralized, the lower will be the average divergence of individual preference for economic policies.
Industrial engineers assumed the decision-makingauthority once exercised by skilled craftsmen.
In strong integration, environmental, social and economic assessments are fully integrated with each other, and the decision-makingauthority is explicitly required to use the recommendations of the overall appraisal.
Harmonisation takes the decision-makingauthority even further away from the ultimate consumer.
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