Positive impact of employee empowerment on job satisfaction

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What is job satisfaction?


As an individual, people are considered as either employee, entrepreneur or dependents . Employee ratio can be defined as the employment to population ratio, which the number of persons who are employed as percent of the total employable population. According to D Clark  In 2021 Estimated employment ratio worldwide was approximately 55.9% which is greater than half of the global population. (Clark, 2021). The subject  of job satisfaction came as in an vital factor in modern business management as more than the half the world population are employed in organizations  .In  modern management job satisfaction has become a  philosophy.
 
Job satisfaction  is defined in many ways by many authors.

  1. Job satisfaction can be defined as the feeling about job or how an employees feel about their daily job activities . This is something extended to their daily duties to cover satisfaction with team, policies, and impact of their work on employee’s personal lives.(Basuamllick ,2021)

  2. Job satisfaction, by definition, is a state of pleasant or positive affection that develops in the process of evaluating a person's work experience. In this case, job satisfaction is gradually taken as a work reflection. (  Zhu, 2015)

Factors of Job satisfaction


Job Satisfaction is related to the psychology of the employee. A satisfied and contented employee in a job is always is encouraged to contribute more of his out put .Similaly on the contrary a dissatisfied employee becomes indifferent, makes mistakes, and becomes a burden to the company. Factors  that contribute to job satisfaction are:



  1. Compensation and working condition 
  2. Work life balance
  3. Respect and recognition
  4. Job security
  5. Challenges 
  6. Carrier growth 
  7. Organization and internal environment
  8. Management attitude and employee relations  
(MBA skool team , 2021)


Figure 1.1 Factors of job satisfaction
(MBA skool team , 2021)

Impact of employee empowerment to increase job satisfaction.

In the modern world of  business where business environment is changing rapidly , organizations need to put more  effort into enhance their capabilities , It should not be forgotten that the ability and competitive advantage of  any organization relies on commitment, motivation, contented and innovative  people. A discourse on employee empowerment has become popular in folklore In the literature for many years, however, this concept has been the subject of continuous study  in modern competitive business world.

The modern management uses employee empowerment as a  primary tool to build trust and confidence between employee and management, which help to encourage the active participation of employee in decision making as well . It is believed that the human profile of modern organizations can be enhanced in order to achieve excellence at Cooperate levels, through  team spirit, self-confidence ,and innovation(Inspired people)

A direct relationship can be seen  between employee empowerment, job satisfaction and  performance as below,

The INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS  has done a research and prove this concept. The  out come of the research has proved  that employee empowerment  has an direct impact to improve the level of job satisfaction. Happy employee tends to deliver effective out comes through individual innovative way .(Yousuf et al.2011).

Positive impact of Empowerment to job satisfaction and performance  



Figure 1.2
(Author developed,2022)


Live Example:

Netflix:

Netflix is a one of the best companies which has rapid success story by employee empowerment as well as the employee happiness at Netflix listed in the top 5% of similar size of companies. Employee empowerment is the successive factor of Netflix which lead through enjoying the satisfaction of job life is proven from fig 1.3.







References 


1.Clark ,D.(2021), Estimated employment-to-population ratio worldwide in 2021, by region. Available at: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258882/global-employment-rate-by-region/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20the%20employment%2Dto,working%20age%20population%20were%20employed.
(Accessed : 14 April 2022)
2.Basuamllick ,C.(2021), What Is Job Satisfaction? Definition, Factors, Importance, Statistics, and Examples. Available at: https://www.toolbox.com/hr/engagement-retention/articles/what-is-job-satisfaction/
(Accessed : 14 April 2022)
3. Zhu, Y. (2015) ‘A Review of Job Satisfaction’, Asian Social Science, 9(1), pp.293-298 .doi:10.5539/ass.v9n1p293
4. MBA Skool Team(2021) ,Job Satisfaction Meaning, Importance, Factors & Example. Available at: https://www.mbaskool.com/business-concepts/human-resources-hr-terms/4394-job-satisfaction.html
(Accessed: 12 April 2022)
5. Yousuf et al.(2011) ‘Impact of Employee Empowerment on Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Analysis of Pakistani Service Industry’, INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS,2(11),pp.680-684.Available at: https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=787119070001119017009122020094071068125005068013093026075075117088100087100102115085029055063104039010060027116000007087000096019036075005000008108029019118069102005018033044105071114017026098008127102122076068103031125107007081093092013092008088100093&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE
(Accessed: 13 April 2022)
6. Shah ,R .(2021), Employee Empowerment the Netflix Way , Available at : https://www.shortform.com/blog/employee-empowerment/
(Accessed on 08th of April  2022)
7.Netflix happiness score (2022). Netflix ,Available at: https://www.comparably.com/companies/netflix/happiness
(Accessed :11 April 2022)

Comments

  1. P.Janaka Chaminda PereraApril 21, 2022 at 2:16 AM

    According to Elanga , A. (2014) Empowerment or participative control is one of the only methods of helping personnel to make use of their innovative abilities to enhance their overall performance inside the organization they paintings for. To create powerful Empowering personnel miles require clean communique channels. This would require control to spend money on accelerated amounts of time speaking to personnel and taking into consideration feedback. In addition, it's going to require that control examine the communique patterns and strategies which are being used inside the organization to make sure the maximum green procedures possible. Empowerment or participative control is one of the only methods of helping personnel to make use of their innovative abilities to enhance their overall performance inside the organization they paintings for. To create powerful Empowering personnel miles require clean communique channels. This would require control to spend money on accelerated amounts of time speaking to personnel and taking into consideration feedback. In addition, it's going to require that control examine the communique patterns and strategies which are being used inside the organization to make sure the maximum green procedures possible.

    Reference:
    Abou Elnaga, A. and Imran, A., 2014. The impact of employee empowerment on job satisfaction theoretical study. American Journal of Research Communication, 2(1), pp.13-26.

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  2. Kasun WarnapuraMay 1, 2022 at 5:04 AM

    Employee empowerment is one of those terms that everyone thinks they understand, but few really do.it is derived from various approaches and fields of study such as psychology, economy, education, and social and organizational studies. This power should be endowed to the individual or should be observed in his or her organizational role. The term “empowerment” is elastic and so it is not always clears what it means in different organizations.

    (Ameer, Bhatti & Baig,2014).

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  3. maduwanthisilva.blogspot.comMay 2, 2022 at 3:23 AM

    Empowered employees are expected to perform more effectively and efficiently than non-empowered workers because it gives recognition about shared control and power.
    (Ergeneli et al.2007). Through empowering, employees feel that they have power to do important task for the organisation. Feeling that organisation truly value them, make employees happy and satistfied.

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  4. Rohitha SamarathungeMay 3, 2022 at 8:33 AM

    Participation of employees has to be introduced in organizations where power is shared,
    everyone is given an opportunity to participate, employees will not be punished for
    unproductive attempts but will be rewarded for trying, work is conducted by consensus and
    multidisciplinary teams are utilized to implement processes. All this demands a change in
    corporate culture, in which everyone must adopt the new principles and values, particularly
    senior managers.

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  5. Ishari WeerasingheMay 6, 2022 at 7:56 AM

    HRM deals with the administering and organizing human resource of organization Graham, H. T., & Bennett, R. (1998). This is done in a way that HR managers are always busy in making different policies from recruitment to providing benefits to the employees. They are responsible to bring best talent to the organization and then make policies and procedures to retain them. HR is always helpful in making organization successful by their performance in bringing best talent and through their competitive policies and procedures to retain that best talent and Lu, H., While, A. E., & Barriball, K. L. (2005). reported that job satisfaction is immensely researched domain in order to examine the organizational actions, deeds and performance, while empowerment is a much new concept to the organizations.

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