... are working 12 to 14‐hour days, often doing the work of two or three people. One‐company careers have largely ceased to exist. Most new positions are with small ventures, formed by people with good ideas looking for leadership and a bit of magic to bring them success. Career development Empowerment...

...N. Duru Ahanotu This paper emphasizes that production workers achieve empowerment through participation in processes of innovation and through a collaborative partnership with the sources of design knowledge in a company (including engineers and managers). An alternative reading of Taylor’s...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1998 Continuous improvement Contracts Employees Empowerment Leadership Organizations The classical command and control style of management is becoming increasingly discredited and irrelevant. The style is based on the view that financial capital is the real...

..., movement, song and ceremony. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Employee involvement Empowerment Face‐to‐face communications The philosopher Martin Buber used the term “dialogue” in 1914 to describe a mode of exchange among human beings in which there is a true turning to one another and a full...

...Amelia C. Smith; V. Suchitra Mouly Using a qualitative methodology, the present research attempts to understand members’ perceptions of empowerment in two New Zealand organizations that have undergone various reforms in the workplace. In a departure from the literature, our study reveals...

...Kristine Sullivan Empowerment is a term most misused in today′s business world. This article shows how a firm in South Africa used empowerment to build coherence, clarity, clear direction and identified perimeter′s identified by an executive or leadership team through the use of the 2,000 people...

...Steven H. Appelbaum; Karen Honeggar Examines empowerment as an on‐going and perceptual organizational process yielding a new vision for subordinates. Claims that current attempts to empower employees have met with varying degrees of success as there is a significant gap between the perception...

...Gary D. Geroy; Phillip C. Wright; Joan Anderson Employee empowerment is one of the key management concepts of our time, but the empowerment concept has not yet become part of our corporate culture. In order to make it possible for managers to utilize empowerment concepts, the authors have developed...

...Mary M. Lofy Describes the impact of individuals on organizations, specifically, how a person’s emotional state influences the workplace. Uses two case studies to demonstrate how an emotionally healthy person has a positive impact on empowerment and creativity, and how an emotionally negative...

... objectives are to be credibly and consistently achieved. As such employers, managers, and peers, as well as the individual all have a part to play in enabling trainer empowerment as a bedrock for organizational change‐making, but strategies must take account of the cultural environment within which...

...Jewel Ray‐Chaudhuri This article stresses the importance of reconstructing team identity through the use of conversation and dialogue in order to empower teams to become high performance teams. “Identity empowerment” is defined as the ability to set goals and values and to form connections...

...Eric L. Wickisier Displays the effects of empowerment when the idea of empowerment becomes embedded in organizational culture. Avoids quick fix tactics; instead advises a long view approach to empowerment implementation which involves commitment of top leadership to world class excellence...

...Linda Honold “Employee empowerment” as a term is frequently used in management circles. In practice, however, it is a daunting effort to find an exact definition of it. There are hundreds of articles on the topic. Some attempt their own definition; others expect that the reader already knows what...

.... There were many other barriers to empowerment, including a lack of appropriate rewards, mistrust and lack of self‐motivation on the part of front‐line employees, and leaders’ skills. Identifies various factors that hurt and helped high‐involvement leadership. But if used well, empowering leadership practices...

..., lawn care, snow removal, personal coaching and advocacy services. The vision of this redesign was to integrate a seamless flow of services to a valued population of citizens in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Indeed, across western society, the © MCB UP Limited 1997 Empowerment...

...Anne Marie McEwan; Peter Sackett Global business pressures have forced manufacturers to restructure design and production processes, adopting radically different management practices to gain competitive advantage. Employee empowerment continues to receive attention as a means of effectively...

...Bryan Smith Discusses empowerment and its place in the workplace. Suggests how empowerment can be introduced into organizations in such a manner that it is embraced by the whole workforce. Concludes that organizations cannot develop unless their people are developing. Self‐directed work teams...

...Naftaly Glasman This article extends previous theoretical work done in the area of empowerment in learning to empowerment in managerial training in education. The focus is on learning environment which are developed and within which empowerment occurs. Two such cases are described. The description...

...Ron Robinson Addresses several considerations involved when implementing empowerment in high‐performance organizations, namely: defining empowerment within the organization; setting out key boundaries; and defining roles and responsibilities. Examines each in turn, discussing ways to overcome...

... UP Limited 1997 Evaluation Self‐assessment Performance Measurement Organizational learning Empowerment The concept of employee empowerment and the notion of re‐engineering companies to encourage greater self‐responsibility amongst their staff is receiving increasing attention...