empowerment

Examples of empowerment in the following topics:

• Increasing Empowerment

  • Empowerment does not give people power; rather, it helps to release and express the power that people already have.
  • Empowering people in organizations can encourage more confident, capable, and motivated employees.
  • Organizations are increasingly aware that empowerment often leads to better performance and higher operational efficiency, and there is a general trend toward structuring organizations for empowerment.
  • Though the idea of empowerment can produce very successful results, there are certain risks are involved.
  • Leaders within an organization can encourage employees to put empowerment into practice in several ways.

• Lean thinking summarized into ten concise steps

• Flattening Hierarchies

  • Flattening hierarchies can benefit smaller organizations by increasing employee empowerment, participation, and efficiency.
  • While the flat structure can foster employee empowerment, involvement, and creativity, it can also create inefficiency in decision-making processes.

• Definition and Background

  • The main purpose of cooperative learning is to actively involve students in the learning process; a level of student empowerment which is not possible in a lecture format.

• Special topic: just-in-time and lean systems

• Defining Job Design

  • These include Taylorism, Socio-Technical Systems Approach, Core Characteristics Model, and Psychological Empowerment Theory.
  • Psychological Empowerment Theory posits that there is a distinction between empowering practices and cognitive motivational states.

• The Psychology of Employee Satisfaction

  • The psychological-empowerment theory posits that there is a distinction between empowering practices and cognitive motivational states.
  • Empowering practices often occur through a competent manager who empowers employees by practices such as sharing information, creating autonomy, and creating self-managed teams.

• Latino Rights

  • The Chicano Movement was the part of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement that sought political and social empowerment for Mexican Americans.
  • The Mexican American Movement was part of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s seeking political empowerment and social inclusion for Mexican Americans.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins writes "Du Bois saw race, class, and nation not primarily as personal identity categories but as social hierarchies that shaped African American access to status, poverty, and power" (2000 Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, 42).

• Benefits of Innovation

  • Empowering employees to innovate and improve their work processes provides a sense of autonomy that boosts job satisfaction.