What does 'agency' mean in "The fastest way to lose good people is to give them responsibility without agency." [closed]

What does 'agency' mean here? I've looked up the meaning of 'agency' in dictionaries but none of them seems a good explanation of what it means in this sentence. Could someone explain what this sentence means in other words?

Thanks!!

Agency in this context means "power" (to arrange affairs, influence the behaviour of other people, etc).

In a similar vein, it is common to refer to a government "in office but not in power", meaning that they are saddled with responsibility for outcomes (usually adverse), but have no ability themselves to intervene in the causes or determine the outcomes.

What your phrase is really expressing is that the fastest way to lose good people, is to blame them or penalise them for adverse outcomes (or threaten or imply your intention to do so), when the outcomes for which they are being held responsible are not reasonably under their control.