The importance of Employee Empowerment in Leadership
What is Employee Empowerment (EE)
Employee empowerment refers to how the company provides employees with everything they need to be successful. As a key method of leadership, empowerment refers to a process of sharing power and assigning more autonomy and responsibility to subordinates through a series of specific leadership behaviors. These behaviors include enhancing the meaning of work and promoting participation in decision-making, express employee confidence etc.
How to Empower Employees
1. Provide authority and property by extracting responsibility - Get a new project for employees and execute using it. When delegate different tasks to employees, it gives it to achieve work and do it well.
2. Clarifies the guidelines and best practices - When they understand the guidelines that should work on any limit that can push them, they can make their work more effective and more compatible.
3. Encourage communication to raise the level of confidence and indicates that all ideas are welcomed and evaluated.
4. Identify obstacles and finds solutions, and provides people or team training to cause action, which allows growth opportunities.
5. Promote internal development and growth between divisions with work
shadows and cross transitions.
6. Provide organizational support to employees, managing their development plans, and works with administrators.
Benefits of EE
- Work becomes more meaningful
- Employees are more involved in the decision-making process
- Employees will be more confident in their performance
- Employees will get rid of bureaucratic constraints
- Employees are motivated
- More confident in the leadership
- The final result is a stronger Increase
- Trust between managers and employees
- Increase competency
Conclusion
Empowering employees in an organization is important because it can lead to a personal connection to job performance, increased skills, greater self-determination, a sense of doing something within the organization, and increased trust and communication (Moye & Hekin, 2006). Employee authorization can be a very effective tool in modern organizations. Allowing employees more decision-making power in lower-level positions can improve productivity, efficiency, and capabilities of organizations and individuals. Other advantages include greater self-determination, greater trust between employees and managers, and a personal connection to the organization and job performance. In general, as long as managers and employees are willing to participate in this process, employee empowerment can be seen as a successful concept.
References
Moye, M. J., & Henkin, A. B. (2006). Exploring associations between employee empowerment and interpersonal trust in managers. Journal of management development, 25 (2), 101-117.
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Hi Jackson!
ReplyDeleteTo achieve employee empowerment, leadership is the key factor. Leaders must be empowered, enhanced, engaged and must be enabled. Decision made at different levels will help achieve targets satisfactorily. Trust and confidence between the managers and employees is important. Bureaucratic decision making is not welcome at all levels. Well done! Keep it up!
Thank you for your valuable comments Janarthan.
DeleteEmpowerment is a means to include the team in decision making, to give them a participatory role which capitalizes on their own expertise and judgment, and that increases their sense of both individual worth and commitment to the organization. great topic
ReplyDeleteThank you for your valuable comments Oshadha.
DeleteEmployee empowerment is the process of granting employees the power, authority, responsibility, resources, and freedom of decision-making and problem-solving (Aparna, 2020). Empowered employees become more self controlled, and self directed, and they provide their full potential to achieve organizational goals. Thankyou for sharing this interesting article Jackson.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your valuable comments Rukmali.
DeleteHaving an empowered staff should really be the ultimate goal of any employer. As a manager, having a group of people working for you that is willing and able to take the lead and show initiative without the need to have someone hold their hands and guide them every step of the way is truly a dream come true.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your valuable comments Umesh.
DeleteEmployee empowerment is the process of empowering employees by providing them with specific authority and responsibility for achieving the organization's vision through the use of their talent, skills, and creativity. It was initially associated with the formation of trade unions but has grown to encompass much more. It enables leaders to transform their regular workforce into a high-potential resource for the growth and success of the organization.
ReplyDeleteAs a leader, employee empowerment is a vital within leadership and could be very crucial for the fulfillment of an business enterprise. A organization with employees who're satisfied with their role will handiest assist keep achievement of their future accomplishments, overall performance, and advantage worker increase for the duration of the organization.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your valuable comments Bhashitha.
DeleteThere are two key magnitudes in defining empowerment: psychological dimension and structural dimension. Psychological empowerment dimension meanings fall into intrinsic motivation that makes discretion and self-efficiency (Patah et al., 2009).
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