decision-making power
Control over outcomes
Decision-making power is the authority to make choices that others must accept or follow.
It implies not just having opinions but having the final say: The budget committee has real decision-making power.
In relationships and organizations, disputes often center on who holds decision-making power over what.
- controlAuthority to direct
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- influencePower to affect others
- leadershipAbility to direct others
corner office · veto · casting vote · authority · mandate · autonomy · consensus · hierarchy · discretion · final say · jurisdiction · agency · executive order · critical thinking · empowerment · delegation · seat at the table · reasoning
- elite poweroligarchy, plutocracy, oligarch, plutocrat, oligarchs
decision-making powerpowerlessness
Inability to affect outcomes
subordination · subjugation · disenfranchisement · helplessness · impotence
decision-making powerpassivity
State of non-resistance
compliance · obedience · infantilization · learned helplessness