Empowerment in Workplace
Empowerment in workplace
Introduction
Empowerment is a buzzword in management field. It is a different form of organization from the traditional hierarchy. Many organizations have applied it into their management. Why is it so popular? what are its advantages? Are there some disadvantages in it? What difficulties it will bring to an organization when applied and what’s the solution? in addition, what is job redesign ? what is the association between it and employee empowerment? These are what this paper will answer below.
Mainbody
2.1 people play a significant role in an organization. people is the core element in an organization. When an organization purchacing its goals, planning, organization, execution and monitoring are needed, but all the activities can not be done without people. People’s attitude, behavior determine the organizational performance. But people are not perfect, they make mistakes. They have both advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes, they creative,self-confident, passionate, hard-working, active which are benefit for the organization , while sometimes they are lazy, passive, selfish, disoperative which are hamful for the organization. So management become necessary for an organization,especailly,the human resources management. A effective human resources management should create a enviroment under which the employee are benefits rather than interferences to their organization.
2.2 situation of traditional power structure
In the traditional organization power structure, the managers make all of the decisions, the employee have no right to make decisions about their jobs but to follow the managers’ instructions. This situation have some bad affects to the employee and organization itself.
1. employee can lose interest and passion about their jobs.
Due to no self-determination, employee may feel boring and become passive. They do not contribute enough ability to the work, because they may are doing what they really do not
Introduction
Empowerment is a buzzword in management field. It is a different form of organization from the traditional hierarchy. Many organizations have applied it into their management. Why is it so popular? what are its advantages? Are there some disadvantages in it? What difficulties it will bring to an organization when applied and what’s the solution? in addition, what is job redesign ? what is the association between it and employee empowerment? These are what this paper will answer below.
Mainbody
2.1 people play a significant role in an organization. people is the core element in an organization. When an organization purchacing its goals, planning, organization, execution and monitoring are needed, but all the activities can not be done without people. People’s attitude, behavior determine the organizational performance. But people are not perfect, they make mistakes. They have both advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes, they creative,self-confident, passionate, hard-working, active which are benefit for the organization , while sometimes they are lazy, passive, selfish, disoperative which are hamful for the organization. So management become necessary for an organization,especailly,the human resources management. A effective human resources management should create a enviroment under which the employee are benefits rather than interferences to their organization.
2.2 situation of traditional power structure
In the traditional organization power structure, the managers make all of the decisions, the employee have no right to make decisions about their jobs but to follow the managers’ instructions. This situation have some bad affects to the employee and organization itself.
1. employee can lose interest and passion about their jobs.
Due to no self-determination, employee may feel boring and become passive. They do not contribute enough ability to the work, because they may are doing what they really do not
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