Discretion is examined as a feature of the design of rule-guided systems. That is, given that rules have to be administered by some group of persons, called adjudicators, and given that their goals may be different from society’s (or a relevant organization’s), when is it socially desirable to allocate discretionary authority to the adjudicators and, if so, to what extent? The answer reflects a...

Telework and other flexible working arrangements, which have exponentially expanded with new advancements in digitalization the impact of COVID-19, are modifying conditions workers’ engagement. Using ‘job demands-resources’ model, we applied multivariate techniques to examine different ways telework intensity impacts by gender. Increased remote was positively associated better skills discretion...

Abstract This article discusses the recast Blue Card Directive ( BCD ) on admission of highly qualified non-EU migrant workers. The aims to facilitate employers in their demand talent and enhances workers’ rights. As this demonstrates, challenges remain view prerogative Member States maintain national schemes benefit from wide discretion. We conclude that if implement restrictively, could be an...

Looked at from a general science of law, the effective individualizing agency in the administration of justice is discretion .... Discretion is an authority conferred by law to act in certain conditions or situations in accordance with an official's or an official agency's own considered judgment and conscience .'

The use of knowledge discovery from database (KDD) techniques such as neural networks in the legal domain can alter the practice of law by introducing a non-expert mechanism for predicting and analyzing Court outcomes. Legal domains that are well suited to KDD are those in which a high level of judicial discretion exists particularly where the source of the discretion stems from a principle sta...

New Public Governance theory increases citizen participation and expands bureaucrats' roles in the work of government. Citizen creates new mechanisms for citizens to influence policy process. Bureaucrats' expanded allow broader bureaucratic discretion over implementation. When citizens' views on public management decisions collide, whose prevail? Do volunteers or bureaucrats have greater decisi...

Some patients have no chance of surviving if not treated, but very little chance if treated. A number of medical ethicists and physicians have argued that treatment in such cases is medically futile and a matter of physician discretion. This paper critically examines that position. According to Howard Brody and others, a judgment of medical futility is a purely technical matter, which physician...

When John Adams crafted wording that the state shall establish "a government of laws and not of men" into the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1780, he did not specify precisely where, in the real world, the boundaries of law should end and where officials should begin to exercise discretion in interpreting and enforcing the laws. The founding fathers gave us organizing prin...