EMPOWERMENT

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PARTICIPATION
 EMPOWERMENT
 Is any process that provides greater autonomy
to employees through sharing of relevant
information and the provision of control over
factors affecting job performance.
 It helps remove the conditions that cause
powerlessness while enhancing employee
feeling of self-efficacy
 Authorizes employees to cope with situations
and enables them to take control of problems as
they arise.
 Remove conditions of THE PROCESS OF EMPOWERMENT REQUIRES
powerlessness TWO PRONGED ATTACK
• Unwanted changes
• Negative leadership
• Unfair reward system Perception of
• Overwhelming jobs empowerment Effectiveness
• Competence
• Autonomy
• Job meaning
Enhance job-related • Sense of impact
self- efficacy • Opportunity
Satisfaction
• Job mastery
• Control &accountability
• Role models
• Reinforcement
• Support
FIVE BROAD APPOACHMENT TO
EMPOWERMENT:
1) Helping employees achieve job mastery
2) Allowing more control
3) Providing successful role models
4) Using social reinforcement and persuasion
5) Giving emotional support
 PARTICIPATION
 It is the mental and emotional involvement
of people in group situations that encourages
them to contribute to group goals and share
responsibility for them.
THREE IMPORTANT IDEAS OF
PARTICIPATION:

 INVOLVEMENT

 CONTRIBUTION

 RESPONSIBILITY
 INVOLVEMENT - participation means
meaningful involvement rather than mere
muscular activity.

• EGO-INVOLVED - a person who

participates
 IDEAS (Motivation to contribute)
- Employees are empowered to release
their own resources of initiative and creativity
toward the objectives of the organization. It
improves motivation by helping employees
understand and clarify their paths towards goal.
Acceptance of Responsibility
• Participation encourages people to accept
responsibility in their group’s activities.
• When we talk about their organization, they
begin to say “we” not “they”.
• When they see a job problem, it is “our”,
not “theirs”.
HOW PARTICIPATION WORKS?
 Two views of Power and Influence

Autocratic View Participative View

Power Power
• Is a fixed amount • Is a variable amount
• Comes from the authority • Comes from people
structure through both official and
• Is applied by management unofficial channels
• Is applied by shared ideas
and activities in group
 Prerequisites for Participation
• Adequate time to participate
• Potential benefits greater than cost
• Relevance to employee interests
• Adequate employee abilities to deal with the
subject
• Mutual ability to communicate
• No feeling of threat to either party
• Restriction to the area of a job problem
UNDERPATICIPATION
 When employees want more participation than
they have, they are “participatively deprived”.
OVERPARTICIPATION
When they have more participation than they
want, they are “participatively saturated”
Responsibilities of Employees and Managers
• Be fully responsible for their actions and their
consequences
• Operate within the relevant organizational policies
• Be contributing team members
• Respect and seek to use the perspective of others
• Be dependable and ethical in their empowered
actions
• Demonstrate responsible self-leadership
 Benefits of Participation

• Participation tends to improve motivation because

employees feel more accepted by their employer
and more actively involved in the situation.

• Once the organizational culture is changed, then the

system as a whole becomes more effective.
 SERVANT LEADERSHIP
Several key behaviors of a servant leader:
• They listen actively and empathetically.
• They engage in introspection to understand
better their own attitudes and feelings.
• They treat others with respect, as equals
• They admit mistakes, confess their own
vulnerability, and ask for help from
others.
• They seek to engage in dialogue and
often paraphrase to ensure
understanding.
• They affirm the worth and contributions
of each participant.
• They are willing to admit mistakes and
ask for help.
• They build trust by articulating their
values and acting consistently with them.
• They place great emphasis on helping
other people succeed.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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GODBLESS