MENTORING: A TOOL FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION. BY YEMISI COKER INTRODUCTION: The world they say is “sitting on a social and economic time bomb”. It is plagued by a cancer that would soon be incurable. This is a result of the rising rate of youth unemployment. Statistics show that there are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged 15 – 24. Global unemployment rate as at 2012 was projected at 12.7%.In Africa‚ youth unemployment has become a threat to socio-economic peace
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empowering them and thus restoring equality between the sexes. Though the concept of women’s empowerment‚ as it is now understood‚ and the movement to achieve it are fairly recent Western phenomena‚ India has not escaped their influence. Women’s empowerment was one of the primary objectives of the Ninth Five Year Plan‚ and the Government of India even declared the year 2001 ‘Women’s Empowerment Year’. Backed by the government‚ policy planners and implementers are now concentrating on the task
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conclusion benefiting them as well as the organization are called as employees. In a layman’s language employees are the lifeline of an organization. Empowerment of employees results in increased initiative‚ involvement‚ enthusiasm & innovation. From large corporate giants to a small business operation‚ this concept holds true. This is because; empowerment caters to an important human need which is common to any employee‚ regardless of work setting. This is the need for recognition and self actualization
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Empowerment is an increase in power. He argues that power can be either ‗variable sum‘ or ‗zero sum‘. The former refers to a process through which the powerless can be empowered without altering the nature and the levels of the power..while the later refers to ‗any gain in power by one group inevitably results in a reduction of the power exercised by others. Empowerment is instrumentally important for achieving positive development outcomes and well-being of life which lies in the doing and being
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Differences Between TQ and Traditional Organizations Some of the contrasting differences between modern TQ organizations and traditional organizations that pre-dated the quality revolution are summarized below. Organizational structures: Traditional management views an enterprise as a collection of separate‚ highly specialized individual performers and units‚ linked within a functional hierarchy. Lateral connections are made by intermediaries close to the top of the provinces. TQ views the enterprise
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Employee empowerment in services: a framework for analysis Conrad Lashley The School of Tourism and Hospitality Management‚ Leeds Metropolitan University‚ Leeds‚ UK Keywords Employees‚ Empowerment‚ Hospitality industry‚ Service Abstract Employee empowerment is said to benefit all organisations. The fast moving global economy requires that organisations learn and adapt to change quickly‚ and employees have a key role to play here. This is particularly true in modern service organisations. The empowered
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Women’s Empowerment Revisited: From Individual to Collective Power among the Export Sector Workers of Bangladesh Naomi Hossain March 2012 IDS WORKING PAPER Volume 2012 No 389 2 The Poverty and Inequality research cluster‚ part of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team at IDS‚ produces research on poverty‚ inequality and wellbeing. Our research challenges orthodox views on the nature of poverty‚ how poverty is understood and how policy can best accelerate poverty reduction. Our work
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Youth empowerment is an attitudinal‚ structural‚ and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability‚ authority‚ and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people‚ including youth and adults.[1] Youth empowerment is often addressed as a gateway to intergenerational equity‚ civic engagement and democracy building. Many local‚ state‚ provincial‚ regional‚ national‚ and international government agencies and nonprofit community-based organizations
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Aditya Shukla*1‚ Bhoopendra Ratan2‚ Sangeeta Maurya3 1Deptt. of Humanities & Applied Science 2Deptt of ECE and Value Education Cell College of Engineering‚ Science & Technology.Mohanlalganj Lucknow. 3Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth‚ Varanasi *E-mail:aditya220462@gmail.com Abstract: Women bear almost all responsibility for meeting basic needs of the family‚ yet are systematically denied the resources‚ information and freedom of action they need
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Women’s Empowerment Source: www.undp.org UNDP promotes equality between women and men through ’gender mainstreaming. ’ The organization’s corporate strategy on gender is designed to integrate the promotion of women’s empowerment and equality fully in the organization ’s core business. This strategy calls for gender mainstreaming to become everyone’s job – not the responsibility of a small number of specialists. It rests on three pillars: Developing capacities – both in-country and in-house
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