Empowerment & Paticipation
Empowerment & Paticipation
Empowerment & Paticipation
&
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.
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GODBLESS