empowerment

Examples of empowerment in the following topics:

• Increasing Empowerment

  • Empowerment does not give people power; rather, it helps to release and express the power that people already have.
  • Empowering people in organizations can encourage more confident, capable, and motivated employees.
  • Organizations are increasingly aware that empowerment often leads to better performance and higher operational efficiency, and there is a general trend toward structuring organizations for empowerment.
  • Though the idea of empowerment can produce very successful results, there are certain risks are involved.
  • Leaders within an organization can encourage employees to put empowerment into practice in several ways.

• Flattening Hierarchies

  • Flattening hierarchies can benefit smaller organizations by increasing employee empowerment, participation, and efficiency.
  • While the flat structure can foster employee empowerment, involvement, and creativity, it can also create inefficiency in decision-making processes.

• Defining Job Design

  • These include Taylorism, Socio-Technical Systems Approach, Core Characteristics Model, and Psychological Empowerment Theory.
  • Psychological Empowerment Theory posits that there is a distinction between empowering practices and cognitive motivational states.

• Benefits of Innovation

  • Empowering employees to innovate and improve their work processes provides a sense of autonomy that boosts job satisfaction.

• Key Behaviors of Transformational Leaders

• Technology as a Driver and Enabler of Innovation

  • The proliferation of innovation pertains to two important factors of technology driving innovation: the creation of geographic hubs for technology and empowerment of knowledge exchange through communication and transportation.

• Steps to Smooth Organizational Change: Kotter

  • Empower action: This step removes obstacles wherever possible, enables constructive feedback, and garners support from leaders—complete with motivational rewards that recognize progress and achievements.

• Financial Rewards for Managers

  • Empowering employees in a developmental direction and providing them with challenges that stretch their abilities are substantial motivators.

• Types of Social Responsibility: Sustainability

  • Efforts to improve education, to expand worker rights, to minimize the use of child labor, and to increase the political empowerment of women, especially in developing countries, are examples of social sustainability practices.

• Types of Organizational Culture

  • The values of charity, understanding, empowerment, and empathy would be deeply ingrained within the organization.