Autonomy

In developmental psychology in addition to moral, political, in addition to bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to construct an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are freelancer or self-governing. Autonomy can also be defined from a human resources perspective, where it denotes a relatively high level of discretion granted to an employee in his or her work. In such cases, autonomy is call to broadly increase job satisfaction. Self-actualized individuals are thought to operate autonomously of external expectations. In a medical context, respect for a patient's personal autonomy is considered one of many necessary ethical principles in medicine.

Politics

In governmental parlance, autonomy allocated to self-governance. An example of an autonomous jurisdiction was the former United States governance of the Philippine Islands. The Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916 present the framework for the develop of an autonomous government under which the Filipino people had broader home autonomy than previously, although it reservedprivileges to the United States to protect its sovereign rights and interests. Other examples put Kosovo as the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo under the former Yugoslav government of Marshal Tito and Puntland Autonomous Region within Federal Republic of Somalia.