EMPOWERMENT and

PARTICIPATION
MA. THERESA A. APOSTOL
MAEd
EMPOWERMENT
What is EMPOWERMENT?

• Empowerment means encouraging and allowing

individuals to take personal responsibility of
improving the way they do their jobs and
contribute to the organization’s goals.
FOUR EMPOWERING ELEMENTS

INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

POWER REWARDS
FOUR EMPOWERING ELEMENTS

INFORMATION Employees recieve information about

company performance

Employees have knowledge and skills to

contribute to company goals.
KNOWLEDGE
FOUR EMPOWERING ELEMENTS

Employees have the power to make

POWER substantive decision

Employees are rewarded based on company

REWARDS performance
FOUR CRITICAL PROCESSESS OF LEARNING
ORGANIZATIONS
EMPOWERING SALIENT ELEMENTS OF EMPOWERMENT
EMPLOYEES AT
ALL LEVELS  Start at the bottom by understanding needs of employees
 Teach employees skills of self-management
 Build teams to encouragecooperative beahvior
 Encourage intelligent risk – taking
 Trust people to perform
TYPES OF EMPOWERMENT

DECISION – MAKING Empowering employees to make decisions

EMPOWERMENT
Giving employees financial empowerment
FINANCIAL allows them to decied the best uses of the
budget for supporting their positions and
EMPOWERMENT achieving company goals.
TYPES OF EMPOWERMENT

This approavh gives employees the autonomy

to use thier time as they see fit, working non-
TIME MANAGEMENT
traditional hours or dividing time between a
home office and a work location
EMPOWERMENT

Employees who are empowered with an honest

SHARED INFORMATION and forthright look at what’s going on behind
the scenes at work are less likely to feed the
EMPOWERMENT corporate rumor mill.
PARTICIPATION
 PARTICIPATION
What is it?
• Clegg says, “It implies a situation where workers
extent representatives are, to some extent,
involved in the process of of management decision
making but where the ultimate power is in the
hands of the management.”

• According to Dr. Davis, “ it is a mental and

emotional involvement of a person in a group
situation which encourages him to contribute to
goals and share responsibilities in them”.
 PARTICIPATION
What is it?
• According to Keith Davis, Participation refers to
the mental and emotional involvement of a person
in a group situation which encoourages him to
contribute to group goals and share the
responsibility of achievement

• According to Walpole, Participation in Management gives

the worker a sense of of importance, pride and
accomplishment ; it gives him the freedom of opportunity
for self- expression; a feeling of belngingness with the
place of work and a sense of workmanship and creativity.
THREE IMPORTANT IDEAS OF PARTICIPATION

Involvement

Contribution
Participation means
meaningful involvement
rather than more muscular Responsibility
activity Something given or
offeredthat adds to a larger
whole
Accept responsibility in group
activities
HOW PARTICIPATION WORKS

SOLUTION OUTCOMES
Organization:
- Higher Output
- Better Quality
Involvement - Innovation
Participative - Mental
Programs Employees Acceptance
- Emotional Self – Efficacy
Less Stress
Satisfaction
PARTICIPATION AS A TOOL TO EMPOWERMENT

Some point to achieve this situation are:

• Do not underestimate people
• Start with people’s own concern and issues relevant to them
• Do not superimpose your own ides and solutions at the outset
• Help people in widening their perceptions of the choices available
• Build in visible early successes to develop the confidence of
participants.
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