Inside an organization employee empowerment is about looking for strategies, philosophies, and new ways that will help the employees make positive decisions. What empowerment does is let employees possess and govern his/her decisions on work, responsibilities, and any responses to new ideas by having management enable and train. "Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behaves, take action, and control work and decision making in autonomous ways" (Heathfield, 2008). Basically empowerment motivates individuals to take control over their life.
Management must create an environment that is safe, positive, where employees feel valued and listened to inside an organization. This atmosphere allows the employees to feel like their opinion matters and soon they will be motivated and work as a team to communicate and improve strategies and activities. Positive environments allow for employees to feel like they are a positive contributing to the organization process, growth and development.
Empowerment
Español: Cuadro Sinoptico de Empowerment
English: Emphasising choice in decision making as ...(Heathfield, Susan, 2008)Using a flat organization strategic promotes employee involved in all areas of an organization. Flat organization promotes teamwork and empowerment, decision making and working in groups. "In flat organizations, decisions are made faster, entrepreneurial creativity of employees is released, and ideas are managed better" (Gates, Bill, 2008). Flat organizations rely on teams and individuals to empower each other in order for the organization to be success.
Team empowerment increases increase ownership in decision making and allows for employees to gain ownership of ideas. Teamwork allows for employees to use a multitude of brains. Teamwork empowers individuals to be put their strengths together in order to have a collective accountability and ideas. Teamwork consists of brain storming and using the diverse strengths and expertise of each member. Group decision making involves problem solving together, sharing, communication and deletion reasonability.
Demonstrating value in employees promotes group...