Essays on Employee Empowerment

A mid-sized printed-circuit-board manufacturing company gained substantial profits in the initial phase of implementing employee empowerment. Management support and ‘new employee-driven competitiveness’ allowed the company to save a large amount of money. The new management was however, not supportive enough due to which the empowerment program eventually dissolved. As a quality manager, it is pertinent to understand the reasons for management resistance. Halfhearted support from the new management could be due to several reasons such as “insecurity, personal values, ego, insufficient and ineffective management training, personality characteristics of managers, and exclusion of managers” (Goetsch and Davis 121). In order ...

Article Critique: Successful Change Management Involves Employees

Summary of the Article and Audience Figure 1: Successful Change Management happens at Bottom Source: Rick (2014) It is argued that successful change management in the organization depends on the fact that people are required to be informed about change in terms of new structures, policies and mergers. The main reason is that changes lead to development of new systems and environments. Hence, the employees are able to needed to be aligned with the new environment and system through proper communication. It is key a strategy to communicate a compelling change story to employees to implement change successfully by ...

Chapter 2: Literature review

Introduction This chapter presents the literature review appraisal that exists and is linked to work contentment and inspiration subjects and how these issues are closely related to industrial performance. The chapter discusses the concept of motivation, job satisfaction, and project management and employee satisfaction. Organizational performance as well as its continuity largely depends on critical assets, employees and the managers' capabilities to create and sustain motivating environments of the employees and other human assets. The primary challenge that managers are faced with today is keeping their human capital such as the employees satisfied and motivated. Therefore, all managers must ...

Chapter 5: Findings and Discussion

In all types of organizations, including cross culture project team in all organizations, the concepts of job motivation is crucial since it plays significant roles in impacting the productivity of organization within which they operate. This study was aimed at finding factors that influence project team members motivation and how this affects the project performance within the finance industry in a multinational and multicultural setting. It was also to address factors that motivate project team members at the commencement of projects thus exploring how project managers alter them to influence the team member needs and priorities. It is the ...

Introduction

Mattel, Inc. is a United States-based international toy manufacturer. By the amount of products sold and revenue accrued, the company remains the largest global toy producer. Starting from the late 1980th, the company has been regularly ranked in the Fortune 500 list, receiving multiple global accolades for operational, strategic and human resources excellence. The brand portfolio of the company includes such internationally recognized products as the Barbie, Fisher-Price, Monster High, Winx Club and many others (Mattel, 2015). Having operational presence in forty countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia and selling its products to almost 150 countries, one of ...

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Difference between Employee ‘Involvement’ and Employee ‘Participation’ 4 Employee Involvement 4 Employee Participation 5 The difference between Employee Involvement and Employee Participation 5 Extent to which Employee Involvement provides Employees Influence over Decision-Making within Organisations 7 Employee Involvement Empowering Employees in Decision-Making Process 7 Employee Participation Empowering Employees in Decision-Making Process 11

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Employment Relations and Law - Employee ‘Involvement’ and Employee ‘Participation’ Introduction These days, every business professional is facing enormous difficulties to manage organisational resources and corporate challenges for keeping the entity viable and sound as a going concern. Apart from managing financial resources, management of human resources ...

Executive Summary

The study focuses on identifying the major issues related to Southwest Airlines. It uses internal, external, and financial analysis for the company and the results show that information system of Southwest Airlines, the risk of competition, lack of long route flights, and integration issues are the current problems faced by the Airline.

The internal analysis reveals that the company faces major threats in the market, and the specific threats are as under.

Competition, Legal infrastructure, Unemployment and inflation, and The shaky economy of the US. The SWOT analysis also explains that the company is dependent on different sources that create specific weaknesses for the business. The dependence of Southwest Airlines is provided below.

Revenues through passengers,

Single provider/supplier, Limited domestic presence, No ...

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In the recent modern day business environment, there has emerged a very strong need for the organizations to make leaders that can steer the way of the organization through the competitive market. With a very specific reference to performance oriented organization, the concept of organizational leadership is dual focused. This means that the organizational leadership is meant for two purposes; one is to ensure that the organizational members of the lower rank i.e. workers and employees get protected in their rights and get empowered to perform their jobs more effectively. Second is to ensure that the expectations ...

Introduction

A team leader is one who is expected to lead and guide a group of individuals to achieve an objective which has been articulated. The team leader monitors the performance of the team in both qualitative and quantitative terms (Dubrin, 2010). The team leader is expected to motivate the team members and ensure that the group dynamics remain healthy. This will ensure that the team performs well and achieve its set objectives (Maddux and Wingfield, 2003). A leader must always explore how to increase the productivity of the team under his charge. One way in which this can be done ...