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    This document discusses empowerment and participation in organizations. It defines empowerment as encouraging employees to take responsibility for improving their jobs and contributing to company goals. Empowerment involves providing employees with information about company performance, knowledge and skills to contribute, power to make decisions, and rewards based on performance. Participation means employees are mentally and emotionally involved and contribute to group goals and responsibilities. Participatory programs can lead to higher output, better quality, innovation, employee acceptance and satisfaction, and less stress when employees are meaningfully involved.

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    This document discusses empowerment and participation in organizations. It defines empowerment as encouraging employees to take responsibility for improving their jobs and contributing to company goals. Empowerment involves providing employees with information about company performance, knowledge and skills to contribute, power to make decisions, and rewards based on performance. Participation means employees are mentally and emotionally involved and contribute to group goals and responsibilities. Participatory programs can lead to higher output, better quality, innovation, employee acceptance and satisfaction, and less stress when employees are meaningfully involved.

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    EMPOWERMENT and

    PARTICIPATION
    MA. THERESA A. APOSTOL
    MAEd
    EMPOWERMENT
    What is EMPOWERMENT?

    • Empowerment means encouraging and allowing


    individuals to take personal responsibility of
    improving the way they do their jobs and
    contribute to the organization’s goals.
    FOUR EMPOWERING ELEMENTS

    INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

    POWER REWARDS
    FOUR EMPOWERING ELEMENTS

    INFORMATION Employees recieve information about


    company performance

    Employees have knowledge and skills to


    contribute to company goals.
    KNOWLEDGE
    FOUR EMPOWERING ELEMENTS

    Employees have the power to make

    POWER substantive decision

    Employees are rewarded based on company

    REWARDS performance
    FOUR CRITICAL PROCESSESS OF LEARNING
    ORGANIZATIONS
    EMPOWERING SALIENT ELEMENTS OF EMPOWERMENT
    EMPLOYEES AT
    ALL LEVELS  Start at the bottom by understanding needs of employees
     Teach employees skills of self-management
     Build teams to encouragecooperative beahvior
     Encourage intelligent risk – taking
     Trust people to perform
    TYPES OF EMPOWERMENT

    DECISION – MAKING Empowering employees to make decisions


    EMPOWERMENT
    Giving employees financial empowerment
    FINANCIAL allows them to decied the best uses of the
    budget for supporting their positions and
    EMPOWERMENT achieving company goals.
    TYPES OF EMPOWERMENT

    This approavh gives employees the autonomy


    to use thier time as they see fit, working non-
    TIME MANAGEMENT
    traditional hours or dividing time between a
    home office and a work location
    EMPOWERMENT

    Employees who are empowered with an honest


    SHARED INFORMATION and forthright look at what’s going on behind
    the scenes at work are less likely to feed the
    EMPOWERMENT corporate rumor mill.
    PARTICIPATION
    PARTICIPATION
    What is it?
    • Clegg says, “It implies a situation where workers
    extent representatives are, to some extent,
    involved in the process of of management decision
    making but where the ultimate power is in the
    hands of the management.”

    • According to Dr. Davis, “ it is a mental and


    emotional involvement of a person in a group
    situation which encourages him to contribute to
    goals and share responsibilities in them”.
    PARTICIPATION
    What is it?
    • According to Keith Davis, Participation refers to
    the mental and emotional involvement of a person
    in a group situation which encoourages him to
    contribute to group goals and share the
    responsibility of achievement

    • According to Walpole, Participation in Management gives


    the worker a sense of of importance, pride and
    accomplishment ; it gives him the freedom of opportunity
    for self- expression; a feeling of belngingness with the
    place of work and a sense of workmanship and creativity.
    THREE IMPORTANT IDEAS OF PARTICIPATION

    Involvement

    Contribution
    Participation means
    meaningful involvement
    rather than more muscular Responsibility
    activity Something given or
    offeredthat adds to a larger
    whole
    Accept responsibility in group
    activities
    HOW PARTICIPATION WORKS

    SOLUTION OUTCOMES
    Organization:
    - Higher Output
    - Better Quality
    Involvement - Innovation
    Participative - Mental
    Programs Employees Acceptance
    - Emotional Self – Efficacy
    Less Stress
    Satisfaction
    PARTICIPATION AS A TOOL TO EMPOWERMENT

    Some point to achieve this situation are:


    • Do not underestimate people
    • Start with people’s own concern and issues relevant to them
    • Do not superimpose your own ides and solutions at the outset
    • Help people in widening their perceptions of the choices available
    • Build in visible early successes to develop the confidence of
    participants.
    “

    ”
    THANK YOU

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