We have specifically encountered two: Weick's tight-loose coupling helps us to understand the extent to which characteristics, such as rules or discretion, are at work in having greater or lesser effects on connectivity between teams and groups.
Psychosocial work factors that have been studied and found to partly explain social inequalities in health are largely restricted to job control or decision authority, skill discretion, social support at work and job insecurity [ 20, 22- 27, 27].
In that respect, some studies have found a higher prevalence in low classes of repetitive work, low skill discretion, low influence at work, high job insecurity and ergonomic, physical, chemical and climatic exposures.
According to lead author Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, "We explored job demands, or the amount of work, time pressure and concentration demands of a job, and job control, or the amount of discretion one has over making decisions at work, as joint predictors of death.
Again, use your own discretion, a best friend is fine, the girl who sits near you at work is not so.
According to World at Work 67% of companies offer workplace flexibility to all or most of their employees at their own discretion.
Job autonomy (7 items) refers to decision-making latitudes and action latitudes at work (e.g. ' My work allows for making decisions on which tasks I have to perform', 'My work offers discretion on how to do my work').
Chief ushers are highly influential in the White House, and the most successful learn to master discretion — at least, after they acclimate to the hectic work lifestyle.
Governments had discretion at the margins.
"You must use discretion at all times.
