MODERN EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT TECHNIQUES

 


Empowerment is a management theory that discusses empowering employees to make independent, self-directed decisions regarding their employment activities. The vision of this vision is to develop a more productive, contributing, self-motivated and satisfied employee base within the organization. (Kasanoff, 2016),But the level of empowerment depends on the management styles that the organization follows.
Conclusion

Research has shown that transformational leadership empowers employees to directly or indirectly influence employees' perception of a company's reputation. Transactional leadership, represented by unpredictable behavior, has a significant negative impact on employees' perception of corporate reputation. There is a relationship between employee empowerment and employees’ perceptions of reputation and found that employees who feel they have more ability to perform, or more control in decision making, tend to evaluate organizational reputation more favorably. IN addition, employees' sense of control plays a more important role than feelings of competence in assessing their reputation. About the relationship between leadership style and employee empowerment, the results showed that both transformational leadership and transactional leadership were positively linked to employee control feelings; Translation leaders are more likely to empower employees and involve them in decision making than business leaders.

As the first step in the employee empowerment journey, leaders must show that they appreciate employees by word of mouth, body language, and facial expressions regardless of what they are doing in their current job. Then the leadership can share the corporate vision and the mission. And strategic plans for their followers, so employees feel they are part of something bigger. (Heathfield, 2019).

Any manager can involve in the team that reports to him when setting department-level goals and planning, which will be empowered those employees to shape their own functions without close supervision. The next most important element is the trust between the leader and the followers. The leader should believe that employees make the right decision and do the right thing. This can be improved by providing the manager's clear expectations, so the employee can focus on their task and accomplish results without worrying about second-guessing. 

All the time Leaders should set their minds to view the problem as the system or a process, not the person. Running down subordinates will destroy the ability to decisions making which harms employee empowerment also. In transformation leadership, we do not see these characteristics. (Lee et.al., 2018). The employees should have continuous feedback on their performances as well as more clarity on what they have to deliver. The managers should have a will to listen to the employee and extend their help or guidance where ever they need it. The method of leadership will help to build an empowered employee who takes a risk in critical decision-making in a constructive way. 

1) Awareness and involvement of corporate leaders in relationship-oriented transformational leadership practices 

 2) Develop systematic leadership communication training programs to build an effective communication system and empowered culture, organizations can enhance employee empowerment and internal communication.

Several research proves that transformational leadership is the best leadership approach to motivate the employee. Find that transformational leadership influences the self-concept of followers and leads to empowerment. The social identity of the follower also determines the amount of empowerment Of the follower.


References

  • Kasanoff, B., (2022). 10 Powerful Ways To Empower Your Employees. [online] Forbes. Available at: <https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucekasanoff/2016/03/24/10-powerful-ways-to-empower-your-employees/#6cc4f0977427> [Accessed 25 April 2022].
  • Heathfield, S., (2022). Boost Your Business by Empowering Employees to Think and Act. [online] The Balance Careers. Available at: <https://www.thebalancecareers.com/empowerment-in-action-how-to-empower-your-employees-1918102> [Accessed 6 May 2022].
  • Lee, A., Sara, W. and Tian, A., (2018). When Empowering Employees Works, and When It Doesn’t. [online] Harvard Business Review. Available at: <https://hbr.org/2018/03/when-empowering-employees-works-and-when-it-doesnt> [Accessed 23 April 2022].
  • Men, L.R. and Stacks, D.W. (2013), "The impact of leadership style and employee empowerment on perceived organizational reputation", Journal of Communication Management, 17(2), pp. 171-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/13632541311318765

Comments

  1. P.Janaka Chaminda PereraMay 1, 2022 at 4:25 AM

    A controlled exercise of sharing information, rewards, and strength with personnel so they can take initiative and make selections to remedy issues and enhance carrier and performance. Empowerment is primarily based totally on the concept that giving personnel skills, resources, authority, opportunity, motivation, as nicely keeping them accountable and chargeable for results in their actions, will make a contribution to their capability and fulfillment (Ameer, 2014)


    Reference
    Ameer, M.H., Bhatti, S. and Baig, S., 2014. Impact of employee empowerment on job satisfaction. Developing country studies, 4(9), pp.114-125.

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  2. Kasun WarnapuraMay 1, 2022 at 12:05 PM

    The essence of employee empowerment is increasing employee's responsibility and improving quality of work. Employee empowerment develops positive attitude among the employees towards the organization. In this competitive world, organizations follow all the possible steps to ensure success and managing the workforce in an efficient manner. In recent years, empowerment has been discerned as an important feature of successful management.
    (Tanjeen,2013)

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  3. maduwanthisilva.blogspot.comMay 2, 2022 at 5:14 AM

    As you described, there is a strong connection between leadership and empowerment. Employee empowerment is one of key indicator in organisational culture. When empowering, there is trust and understand. it is a positive step towards the sustainable business. Goal sharing, coaching and friendly learning are considered as modern empowering tools.(Synergita, 2016) Rather than just giving power, provide needed knowledge, support, guide can bring better results to the company.

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  4. Rohitha SamarathungeMay 3, 2022 at 9:14 AM

    Empowerment is achieved
    through involvement and commitment of employees. Without involvement of employees in the decision-making
    process, the base of decisions will not be properly maintained, and thereby the members of organization can not be
    accountable for the quality of their tasks. Members of the organizations should always think strategically and by
    employing employees in decision making activities,

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