Empowerment and Motivation
Empowerment and Motivation
After the severe impacts of the Great Recession, the high unemployment rate, decreasing productivity and low morale have haunted with the public and private sectors. Therefore, a great number of organizations are starting to focus on the structure of horizontal organization and smart employees who are responsible. This is partly due to the fact that the flatter organization, together with responsive employees, goes a long way to enhance organizational health and effectiveness, which, in a sense, could gain an overwhelming edge over competitors in the dynamic economy. To ensure these objectives could be achieved, a plenty numbers of management approaches have been carried out in organizations in the past decade on the expectation of management could effectively boost the productivity and generate innovation (Boudrias et al., 2009).Such as: employee empowerment, autonomous group working and so forth. However, it is debatable whether organizational health and effectiveness should put a premium on employee empowerment and autonomous group working which are generated from the horizontal structure and responsive staff. Thus, the term ‘empowerment’ has entered the public and private sectors. With the supportive preference in mind this essay is going to analyze the reasons why senior managers should consider employee empowerment and autonomous group working as crucial approaches to achieve organizational health and effectiveness as well as the problems may occur when implemented. The paper is structured as follow: firstly, a brief introduction will be given which is about the relationship between organizational effectiveness and empowerment. Secondly, to discuss about the advantages of employees empowerment and autonomous group in workplace which could help to achieve objectives theoretically, then analyze the arising possible problems when apply employee empowerment or autonomous group working followed by suggestions. Finally a conclusion will
After the severe impacts of the Great Recession, the high unemployment rate, decreasing productivity and low morale have haunted with the public and private sectors. Therefore, a great number of organizations are starting to focus on the structure of horizontal organization and smart employees who are responsible. This is partly due to the fact that the flatter organization, together with responsive employees, goes a long way to enhance organizational health and effectiveness, which, in a sense, could gain an overwhelming edge over competitors in the dynamic economy. To ensure these objectives could be achieved, a plenty numbers of management approaches have been carried out in organizations in the past decade on the expectation of management could effectively boost the productivity and generate innovation (Boudrias et al., 2009).Such as: employee empowerment, autonomous group working and so forth. However, it is debatable whether organizational health and effectiveness should put a premium on employee empowerment and autonomous group working which are generated from the horizontal structure and responsive staff. Thus, the term ‘empowerment’ has entered the public and private sectors. With the supportive preference in mind this essay is going to analyze the reasons why senior managers should consider employee empowerment and autonomous group working as crucial approaches to achieve organizational health and effectiveness as well as the problems may occur when implemented. The paper is structured as follow: firstly, a brief introduction will be given which is about the relationship between organizational effectiveness and empowerment. Secondly, to discuss about the advantages of employees empowerment and autonomous group in workplace which could help to achieve objectives theoretically, then analyze the arising possible problems when apply employee empowerment or autonomous group working followed by suggestions. Finally a conclusion will