Empowerment and Motivation

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Chapter 9

• Empowerment and Motivation

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Empowerment

• Empowerment giving people authority to do
  whatever is necessary to satisfy customers, and
  trusting employees to make the right choices
  without waiting for management approval.

A sincere belief and trust in people.
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Examples of Empowerment

• Managing work as individuals or teams
• Making traditional managerial business
  decisions
• Going outside of job descriptions to help
  customers
• Taking risks for the good of the organization
  even at a short-term cost

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Management Action Needed for Empowerment

• Identify and change organizational conditions
  that make people powerless, and
• increase peoples confidence that their efforts
  to accomplish something important will be
  successful.

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Theoretical Basis for Empowerment

• Customer satisfaction is correlated to employee
  satisfaction
• Employee attitudes correlate strongly to higher
  profits
• Empowerment leads to improved motivation and
  morale, as well as better quality, productivity,
  and speed of decision making

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Empowerment and Quality
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Principles of Empowerment

• Empower sincerely and completely
• Establish mutual trust
• Provide employees with business information
• Ensure that employees are capable
• Dont ignore middle management
• Change the reward system

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Reasons for Failure

• Management support and commitment is nonexistent
  or not sustained.
• Empowerment is used as a manipulative tool to
  ensure employees complete tasks and assignments
  without giving them any real responsibility or
  authority.
• Managers use empowerment to abdicate
  responsibility or task accountability, accepting
  accolades for successes and assigning fault to
  others for failure.
• Empowerment is deployed selectively, segmenting
  the workforce into those who are empowered and
  those who are not.
• Empowerment is used as an excuse to not invest in
  training or employee development.
• Managers fail to provide feedback and do not
  recognize achievements.

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Successful Empowerment

• Provide education, resources, and encouragement
• Remove restrictive policies/procedures
• Foster an atmosphere of trust
• Share information freely
• Make work valuable
• Train managers in hands-off leadership
• Train employees in allowed latitude

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Motivation

• Motivation - an individuals response to a felt
  need
• Views
• Extrinsic
• Intrinsic

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Compensation

• Effect on motivation
• Merit versus capability/performance based plans
• Gainsharing

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Recognition and Rewards

• Monetary or non-monetary
• Formal or informal
• Individual or group

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Effective Recognition and Reward Strategies

• Give both individual and team awards
• Involve everyone
• Tie rewards to quality
• Allow peers and customers to nominate and
  recognize superior performance
• Publicize extensively
• Make recognition fun

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Work Environment

• Quality of working life
• Ancillary services

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Empowerment and Theories of Motivation

• Job Characteristics Theory
• Acquired Needs Theory
• Goal-Setting Theory

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Hackman-Oldham Model