Autonomous to a certain degree. When a mandate comes down from above you have the autonomy to figure out how to comply; which depending on the mandate may leave

Autonomous to a certain degree. When a mandate comes down from above you have the autonomy to figure out how to comply; which depending on the mandate may leave little wiggle room. So, if a CEO mandates everybody get off the Oracle JVM then you have some discretion on moving to OpenJDK or say re-writing things in C#. Also, managers often have a lot of discretion is reporting problems. If somebody you supervise doesn't ever show up in the office but is still getting their work done then you have little reason to inform HR. However, if HR is monitoring badge data on their own then your discretion is irrelevant.