The Importance Of Empowerment Regarding Employee Motivation

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, AKAD-Fachschule München, language: English, abstract: This assignment deals with the importance of empowerment regarding employee motivation. Its about the opportunities for employees, leaders and organizations an empowerd employee can achieve. Employees who are empowered need a good leader. But not all workers can handle the responsibility and have to be encouraged differently. Likewise, not all managers can give up power and have to find another way to lead.

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Employee Motivation, Employee Satisfaction, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: In this paper, the author analyzes the conditions for the implementation of employee motivation through empowerment by scrutinizing the possible ways of interaction between superiors and subordinates and the boundary contingencies as contributory factors in job satisfaction. Stretching the bow from the definition of core terms of investigation to leadership tools, styles and principles, she outlines the organizational set-up which shall enhance the successful empowerment processes. She argues that empowerment must come from a cooperative leadership style which accounts for delegation, mutual trust and communication and therefore increases the likelihood for employee satisfaction. She will show that empowerment constitutes a sufficient condition for employee motivation and evokes the creation of new forms of interaction. Leadership has a key role to play in employee satisfaction and can be wisely used to serve both individual contentedness and organizational objectives. The matter of motivation and volition are two powerful starting points of contemporary leadership research. For bosses, leaders and superiors, it has always been a crucial question to identify employees’ motives and manage their translation into driving forces being beneficial to the conduct of business.There is strong evidence that empowering employees will increase their motivation considerably and hence contribute to overall improved organizational productivity. The implementation of employee motivation - as well as a fundamental understanding of individual behavioral patterns - seem to be the universal keys to individual progress and organizational efficiency.

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Employee Motivation, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on the concept of "empowerment" and its significance for employee motivation. The aim of the paper is to examine how empowerment can serve as a strategic tool for enhancing employee motivation. Key areas of investigation include the definition of empowerment, the conditions under which empowerment can increase employee motivation, and the ways in which managers and organizations can successfully implement empowerment. Despite potential challenges and risks in its implementation, the paper argues that empowerment can have positive effects on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, performance, and innovation. The paper concludes with practical recommendations for managers and organizations on how to effectively utilize empowerment to boost employee motivation.

In a fast-paced, engaging style, Motivating Employees reveals how Southwest, Disney, and other legendary companies have turned themselves into "motivating organizations, workplaces that inspire employees to do excellent work because they want to! Entertaining case histories and examples show how you can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs and put the best of themselves into everything they do. Tips, tools, and techniques in Motivating Employees will show you how to reawaken the pioneer spirit in your organization, and teach your employees to tap their own motivational energy for extraordinary creativity, desire, and work output.

Turn Frontline Staff Into Passionate StakeholdersRon Lovett went from breaking up brawls at nightclubs to providing personalprotection to some of the world's biggest A-List Celebrities--a fifteen-yearroller-coaster ride of managing against the grain in uncharted territory.In Outrageous Empowerment, Ron Lovett shares how he transformed hisone-employee business in Halifax, Nova Scotia, into a leading nationalsecurity company with over fifteen hundred frontline staff. Ron will reveal thetechniques he used to turn disgruntled employees into passionate stakeholderswho carried out the company's visions.All large companies talk about employee alignment through culture andpurpose. Ron will show you how with simple, scalable systems and processeswhich ensure that an enterprise's productivity matches its mission andempowers its staff to execute.

The complexities of employee empowerment have been largely underestimated and it is clear that organisations struggle with putting the concept into practice. Rozana Ahmad Huq recognises that effective utilisation of human resources is a strategic issue for organisations. Hierarchical organisations struggle to survive. The growing trend for downsizing and merging of organisations means that they can no longer maintain the 'command and control' approach and employees are given more responsibility and expected to take decisions. However, simply burdening employees with extra responsibility without empowering them does not deliver results. Drawing on her own research in organisations, Dr Huq investigates the concept of empowerment in a new way that combines themes from the disciplines of management and social work, the latter being a domain where empowerment is an important construct. This helps to bridge the gaps in knowledge in the management domain and draws attention to the positive and negative psychological implications for employees of the practice of empowerment that are often ignored by leaders and managers. Ultimately, the author offers a 'practice model' to help people in management and non-management understand the new roles and behaviours that they need to adopt if empowerment is to become a reality. This book is a resource for any business or other organisation genuinely interested in employee empowerment and for those with a responsibility for teaching about it.

The book is based on exploratory research carried out by the author in Indian Business Organizations. It gives insights to Employee Empowerment and five important leadership styles namely Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Servant Leadership, Abusive Leadership and Ethical leadership and their characteristics based on the researches carried out by the scholars and gurus in these fields. Transformational leadership, servant leadership and ethical leadership style enhance the employee empowerment while transactional leadership has no role in employee empowerment. The book highlight that abusive leadership style is used by many leaders and has negative impact on employee empowerment. Employee empowerment results in Quality of Work Life, Commitment and Job Involvement in employees which enhance competitiveness of the organization. It also emphasizes the important of personal characteristics of employees required to make them empowered. Some employees like to be empowered while some others do not. This book provides guidance to new researchers in the field of leadership and employee empowerment to carry out further researches in these fields in various countries and cultures. The book will guide the managers to identify and enhance the required characteristics to be a successful leader. This book will be a new milestone in the above fields of research and beacon to the practicing managers to navigate them to higher success.

Case Study from the year 2016 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: Merit, , course: MA in Human Resource Management, language: English, abstract: For many years, motivation has been a key indicator of productive employee performance within an organisation, so it has been an area of major concern for the organisation and human resource managers. There are wide ranges of factors related to management, employees, organisation and the workplace which make it a complex and challenging job to motivate employees in an organisation. Therefore, different strategies and methods should be used by the organisation and human resource managers to motivate employees. There are different needs and expectations for an employee to join any organisation. Monetary and non-monetary factors are used by human resource managers to achieve different employee and organisation related objectives. The present research works investigates the impact of motivation on the performance of employees in Ramchandrapur High School. Descriptive method and questionnaires embedded with Likert scale was used as main instruments for collecting necessary data to carry out this research work. Data is collected from the sample size of 50 where faculty members, employee assistants, office helpers, and employees in training and security personnel were included. The critical review of the literature and the quantitative analysis of the survey data pointed that both extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors play an important role in motivating employees. The study revealed that salary is the most effective motivational factor among various extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors like job security, advancement in career, the good relationship among co-workers, achievement sense, training and development and sense of recognition. The study further reveals that level of motivation among the employees of Ramchandrapur High School is low as compared to the expectation of employees. Although both extrinsic and intrinsic factors are responsible for motivating employees in an organisation, this study reveals that employees of Ramchandrapur High School are motivated more by extrinsic factors than by intrinsic ones. The management of the school should focus more towards satisfying the extrinsic need of employees to hold the employees for long which subsequently helps to increase the quality of the output produced by it.