Empowerment In The Workplace

ESSAY ABOUT EMPOWERMENT: INTRODUCTION: Since globalization has been taking serious impact upon different perspectives of life, people have to adapt to these continuous changes. As for management, companies cannot apply antiquated administration methods such as Frederic W. Taylor’s or Henri Fayol ’s one since the amount of work for managers is enormous. This was when employees’ participation in Workplace environment has been acclaimed as the major new industrial weapon against domestic and international threats (Matthes, 1992; Shipper & Manz, 1992). A number of research has chosen employee empowerment as their main topic since human resource is one of the most important factors in running a company or organization. This paper, therefore,

The original meaning of empowerment has been referred to as to “authorise, give power to” (Tulloch, 1993). According to Adams Robert, Employee’s empowerment the workplace environment is defined as “the capacity of individuals, groups and/or communities to take control of their circumstances, exercise power, achieve their own goals and maximize the quality of their lives”. Conger and Kanungo (1988) stated empowerment as the motivational concept of self-efficaciousness. Another denotation of empowerment is “the process of permitting or allowing one’s process to control work and make the decision in autonomous ways” by Carpenter, Bauer, and Short. Each author has his or her own definition of empowerment, but eventually, all of them consider authorization as employees’ permission to make their own decision during their work whenever they

Looking into advantages, there are two main ranges: organizational and individual benefits. Nykodym et al. (1994) found that employees who consider themselves empowered have reduced conflict and ambiguity in their role, as they are able to control (to a certain extent) their own environment. Employees directly get involved in the situations, and also understand most of their troubles so they can decide themselves without spending time telling their managers. Employees are happy because they can solve the problems, customers are happy because their problems are solved quickly, managers are happy because they will not have to spend time thinking about solutions while having a numerous amount of work waiting for them at the