[Solution] Motivational Strategies
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Author: Sarah Bennett
Empowerment and Participation
The power of empowerment and participation to motivate employees can be explained in terms of both the content perspectives on motivation and expectancy theory. For example, the process of making a decision, executing it, and seeing its positive results can help satisfy an employee's need for achievement, provide recognition and responsibility, and enhance self-esteem.
How to Empower Employees
Two ways to promote empowerment are:
- Forming work teams that plan, organize, direct, and control their own work
- Decentralizing the organization and delegating power to lower-level employees
To be successful at empowering employees, organizations must meet five conditions:
- Sincere commitment to share power
- Commitment to maintaining empowerment
- Credible communication of mutual interests
- Gradual delegation of decision making
- Increased investment in training
To empower employees, organizations must meet certain conditions. Which of the following are conditions they must meet? Check all that apply.
- A commitment to empower employees fully on day one of the program
- Increased investment in training and development
- A willingness to withdraw empowerment if employees have different views than management
- A sincere commitment to share power with employees at lower levels
Most employees at an organization work from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to avoid rush hour. What kind of work arrangement is this?
