Empower

A Special agency now called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) within the U.S. Treasury Department was empowered to regulate the alcohoHc beverage industries. Although less adversarial, but strictly enforced even today (ca 1997), the regulations and their appHcation remain voluminous and detailed. They specify not only label compliance and matters relating to taxation that are of direct interest to consumers, but contain all the details of permitted processes for and additions to wines. 

N. Lenssen, Empowering Development The New Energy Equation, Woddwatch Paper 111, Nov. 1992. 

Furthermore, in order more effeetively to ereate quality, the people involved must be empowered to make ehanges in the produets and proeesses they are involved with (Kolarik, 1995). 

Created the Environment Agency (EAJ and the SEA for Scotland. Contains detailed provisions for dealing with a range of environmental issues including air quality contaminated land reinforcing the polluter pays principle water quality, with the EA empowered to require action to prevent water pollution and to require polluters to clean up after any pollution episode. 

Group mission statements express more specifically the role and function of a given group within the company. In essence, a group s mission statement or charter officially empowers the group to take on a particular job. It confers on the group the approval of top management, and outlines the company s expectations for its performance. 

Another company may accomplish the same goal less formally. An ad hoc committee (at the corporate or facility level) might brainstorm on resource needs, discuss priority items with an empowered manager, and gain veriaal approval. The difference is one of style, as opposed to substance in both cases the task of identifying tools and training has been addressed. 

Sufficient Authority. PSM system development often requires working across ot anizational boundaries and in some companies this requires specific authority. In addition, to be effective, the design team and its leader should be adequately empowered to undertake the task at hand without needing multiple approvals every step of the way. 

An encouraging, motivational environment is likely to evoke better performance than a threatening one. It is generally accepted that results are better where employees are empowered to contribute and participate rather than just follow instructions. 

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The Charter empowers The Engineering Council to establish and maintain a Register of qualified engineers. The registrants may, where appropriate, use one of the following titles and designatory letters ... 

Local authorities are empowered by the Control of Pollution Act 1974 to designate areas as noise-abatement zones. Within these areas noise levels are measured and entered into a register. It is an offence to increase noise levels beyond register levels unless consent is obtained. If the local authorities are of the opinion that existing noise levels are too high, noise-reduction notices can be served. 

Section 5 empowers the Minister to make Regulations to substitute new ratings for the requirement to measure grit and dust and fumes from furnaces under Section 7 of the 1956 Act. The Minister is not empowered to reduce the rate without approval of both Houses of Parliament. 

If such a notice is received, an occupier may serve a counter-notice on the local authority requesting them to carry out the measurements themselves. The converse may also happen, in that the local authority may serve a notice which empowers them to enter premises to take measurements (after 21 days notice). If this notice is received an owner can (by notice) require the local authority to allow him to carry out the measurements himself. 

Only in New York would someone try to pick you up because they thought you were a critic. It s emotional suicide, and the city is full of them. Just put a cocktail in your mouth and squeeze the trigger. And who empowered the Otto Preminger look ... 

Helping mentees to clarify their career goals, and assisting in creating an environment such that they feel empowered to achieve those goals. 

However, this view seems to let mentors off their responsibility for relationship building. If a mentor understands the art of establishing rapport (for example, if the mentor offers trust, empathy, and wants to empower the mentee), and if there is a clear goal to achieve, people will find their points of similarity. In fact, every pair has far more points of similarity than dissimilarity ... 

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