Presentation on employee participation, involvement and Empowerment

GROUP NO 2.

Employee participation

NEEDS OF EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION

Employee participation is in part a response to the quality movement within organizations. Employee participation is also part of the move towards human resource development in modern organisations. Employee participation is required to take steps to ensure their own health and safety and that of others.

Successful management of health and safety issues is best achieved through good-faith co-operation in the workplace. In particular, it is achieved through the input of those doing the work.

EXAMPLES OF EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION

Project teams or quality circles in which employees work on project or tasks with considerable responsibility being delegated to them. Consultation exercises and meetings whereby employees are encouraged to share ideas. Delegation of responsibility within the organization.

Suggestion schemes where employees are given channels whereby they can suggests new ideas to managers within the organization. Often they will receive rewards for making appropriate suggestions. Multi-channel decision making process. In such situations decisions are made not only in a downward direction, they also result from communications upwards, sideways and in many other directions within the organization.

EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT

Employee involvement Employee involvement means that every employee is regarded as a unique human being, not just a cog in a machine, and each employee is involved in helping the organization meets its goals. Each employees input is solicited and valued by his/her management. Employees and management recognize that each employee is involved in running the business.

In other words employee involvement can also be defined as the regular participation of employees in : i. How their work is done,

ii. Making suggestions for improvement,

iii.goal setting, iv.Planning, and

v. Monitoring of their performance.

EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT
Employee empowerment refers to enlargement of an employees job responsibilities by giving him the authority of decision making about his own job without approval of his immediate supervisor.

Employee empowerment also means that management recognizes this ability, and provides the employees with tools and authority required to continuously improve their performance. The management states its expectations about employees recognizing and solving problems, and empowers them to do so.

DRAWBACKS
RIVALRY WITHIN AND ACROSS TEAMS A SHORTAGE OF TIME AND SKILLS IN THE TEAM TO DEAL WITH CONVENTIONAL MANAGEMANT CONCERNS LIKE HIRING, TRAINING, AND RESOLVING INTERPERSONAL DISPUTES. DIFFICULTY APPRAISING EMPLOYEES IN THE ABSENCE OF A TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT FIGURE.

How to implement employee involvement and empowerment?

i. Giving employees the responsibility, ii. Training employees to accept the responsibility, iii. Communicating and giving feedbacks, and iv. Giving rewards and recognization.

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