Proposal authority

Who is allowed to put an option on the table in the first place. Not who says yes, but whose ideas even reach the room. Name the people or roles that can formally raise a proposal, and how someone outside that set gets an idea heard.

Who is allowed to put an option on the table in the first place. Not who says yes, but whose ideas even reach the room. Name the people or roles that can formally raise a proposal, and how someone outside that set gets an idea heard.

Example

On the laptop monitoring plan, you write: IT and the two department heads may formally propose surveillance tools; any employee may submit an alternative through the works council, which must put it on the agenda within 10 days. Vendors cannot propose directly.