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Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both - Lessons from Retail & Service Chains (Abridged)
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Reference: HBS-119088-E
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Number of pages: 9
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Publication Date: Jan 3, 2019
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Source: HBSP (USA)
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Type of Document: Case
Description
This note explains how several retail and service organizations use a practice described here as "structured empowerment" to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the po