EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT
Employee
empowerment
Figure 1: Empowerment
A management concept known as employee empowerment places a
strong emphasis on the value of giving people the freedom to make and carry out
their own decisions. Micromanagement is the exact opposite of employee
empowerment. Employees must regularly feel responsible for their actions if
they are to believe that their choices have any impact. Your organization's
performance management procedures have a significant impact on how empowered
your employees feel. Managers that are interested in empowering staff meet with
them in regular one-on-one sessions throughout the year rather than adhering to
the conventional pattern of one or two performance evaluations per year. This
is a chance to discuss individual and group objectives, hold staff responsible
for their current duties, and provide feedback and coaching as necessary to
help staff advance. The
performance discourse changes from retrospectively punishing failure through
remuneration to encouraging success and employee growth in advance as employees
respond to formal and informal feedback. Employee empowerment enables workers
to perform better in the present while developing into more productive members
of the team
Three Important Types of employee empowerment
·
- Suggestion Involvement
It deviates little from the conventional control model.
Through formal suggestion programs or quality circles, employees are urged to
offer ideas. They can simply provide ideas; the management has the authority to
take those proposals and put them into action.
- · Job Involvement
In this kind of empowerment, the tasks are redesigned to
require a range of abilities from the workers. Employees feel their jobs are
important; they have a lot of leeway in how they choose to complete the work;
they receive adequate feedback on how they are doing; and each one handles a
completely designated piece of work. The job participation strategy does not
address strategic issues regarding organizational structure, authority
distribution, or incentive allocation, despite the increased level of
empowerment it delivers. The senior management continues to have these rights.
- · High Involvement
Low-level employees in high-engagement companies’ feel
invested in the success of the entire organization, not simply in how well they
perform individually or as a group. Information on all facets of company
performance is disseminated both vertically and horizontally throughout the
firm. Employees engage in management decisions and gain substantial cooperation
and problem-solving abilities. Profit sharing and employee stock option plans
(ESOP) are common forms of employee motivation in firms with high employee
engagement
The benefits of employee empowerment
Figure 2: Benefits of employee empowerment to employees
- Motivated
Employees
Employee motivation has been directly connected to empowering
employees through more autonomy. Experts concur that workers who have more
choice over the how, when, and where of their employment will put in more
effort and perceive their work to be more interesting. And if given the chance
to demonstrate their skills, staff members will put out their best effort and
feel more content at the end of the day.
- Greater
Trust In Leadership
According to a meta-study published in the Harvard Business
Review, managers who empower their staff are more likely to have their
subordinates' trust than managers who do not. That has not to imply that
managers should assign tasks to staff members that they do not feel like
performing themselves. Leaders who give their staff the freedom to make
decisions function as coaches, encouraging and supporting them as they work
toward their goals. Employees who felt empowered believed that their bosses
would honor and appreciate their accomplishments rather than take advantage of
their hard work.
- Improved
Creativity
According to the same Harvard meta-research, direct reports
of leaders who were seen as empowering were more likely to be seen by their
peers as being highly innovative. Unsurprisingly, subordinates who encouraged
independent thought and teamwork among their workers came up with solutions
that are more creative. Not only that, but empowered direct reports were more
inclined to contribute to their companies in ways other than their regular work
duties. Psychologists hypothesized that empowered people were more dedicated to
and creative in their pursuit of important goals.
- Stronger
Bottom Line
In the end, organizations that support employee empowerment
just outperform those that do not. Businesses are 21 percent more lucrative
when their employees are highly motivated
Conclusion
Employee empowerment is the process through which companies
give their workers some degree of autonomy and control over their daily tasks.
This might involve managing smaller departments with less supervision from
higher-level management, having a say in process improvement, and contributing
to the creation and administration of new systems and strategies. Giving
workers the tools to make critical decisions and assisting in ensuring that
those judgments are right is a fundamental component of employee empowerment.
When implemented correctly, this should lead to increased productivity and
improved work and personal lives for employees.
References
Aparna, J., 2023. Economic Discussion. [Online]
Available at: https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/human-resource-management/employee-empowerment/31827
[Accessed 3 May 2023].
Bamboo HR, 2023. Bamboo HR. [Online]
Available at: https://www.bamboohr.com/resources/hr-glossary/employee-empowerment#:~:text=Employee%20empowerment%20is%20a%20management,the%20direct%20opposite%20of%20micromanagement.
[Accessed 3 May 2023].
Wong, K., 2020. Achievers. [Online]
Available at: https://www.achievers.com/blog/employee-empowerment/
[Accessed 3 May 2023].
Figure 2: Benefits of employee empowerment to
employees
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