Employee Empowerment Contributes to an Organizations Success
Introduction
Empowerment is a powerful tool that companies give to allow each employee to become a decision maker. When empowered employees truly understand their potential, there is almost an immediate positive reaction in the both the company and the individual. For a company to realize success, employees must be trusted and empowered to make business decisions that are in line with the company’s governing policies.
The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of why and how employee empowerment is critical to run a successful operation. Employees and employers both gain positive results when the empowerment process has been successfully implemented in an organization. To properly empower an employee, an organization must understand the principles of the process, recognize the need for training, and provide support when needed.
Implementing Employee Empowerment
Implementing employee empowerment is not an overnight process, but one that requires planning, training, support, and time. There are many steps that must be taken in the proper order to ensure all parts of the empowerment process are being administered correctly. The practice of empowerment is as simple as implementing practices that help employees gain confidence, capabilities, and in control of the outcomes of their work with little to no oversight or micromanaging (Stack, 2010). The first step in the empowerment process is planning. An organization must first ensure that there are proper policies and procedures in place that will act as guardrails for the employees to utilize when making decisions. These policies and procedures must support the free thinking and lack retribution for employees properly using empowerment. Mission and values of an organization should also reflect and support empowerment to help remind everyone in the organization what the goals are. A schedule of events such as training and roll-out dates should be established in order to track the progress
Empowerment is a powerful tool that companies give to allow each employee to become a decision maker. When empowered employees truly understand their potential, there is almost an immediate positive reaction in the both the company and the individual. For a company to realize success, employees must be trusted and empowered to make business decisions that are in line with the company’s governing policies.
The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of why and how employee empowerment is critical to run a successful operation. Employees and employers both gain positive results when the empowerment process has been successfully implemented in an organization. To properly empower an employee, an organization must understand the principles of the process, recognize the need for training, and provide support when needed.
Implementing Employee Empowerment
Implementing employee empowerment is not an overnight process, but one that requires planning, training, support, and time. There are many steps that must be taken in the proper order to ensure all parts of the empowerment process are being administered correctly. The practice of empowerment is as simple as implementing practices that help employees gain confidence, capabilities, and in control of the outcomes of their work with little to no oversight or micromanaging (Stack, 2010). The first step in the empowerment process is planning. An organization must first ensure that there are proper policies and procedures in place that will act as guardrails for the employees to utilize when making decisions. These policies and procedures must support the free thinking and lack retribution for employees properly using empowerment. Mission and values of an organization should also reflect and support empowerment to help remind everyone in the organization what the goals are. A schedule of events such as training and roll-out dates should be established in order to track the progress
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