Assignment 15

Nine Principles are provided on how to development empowerment in employees. Explain these nine principles and provide an example of each.

1. Articulating a clear vision and goal

• Creating an environment where individuals are guided clearly by an articulated vision of where the organization is heading. An example of this would an organization make a Vision statement is which the employees try to achieve.

These goals must be attained using the SMART strategy.

• Specific goals - the goals must be identifiable, behaviourable, and observable.
  
• Measurable goals - they must have outcome criteria, and a degree of success must be attainable.
  
• Aligned goals - these goals must have a purpose and vision of the organization
  
• Realistic goals - the goals must be realistic something that is not far above the capacity of the individual.
  
• Time bound goals - time for accomplishing the goals must be specified.

2. Fostering Personal Mastery Experience

• You must help provide a personal mastery experience over some challenge or problem by breaking up larger tasks into smaller ones (small-wins strategies)

3. Modelling

• Providing a clear example of past successful behaviors that others are to perform.

4. Providing Support

• Managers should praise employees, encourage, express approval, back them up and reassure them. Without the support of managers knowing if you've done your job correctly is absolutely important

5. Emotional Arousal

• This is replacing negative emotions caused by stress and other negative emotions with positive emotions such as excitement, passion, anticipation. It is also making the environment a fun and attractive place to work.

6. Providing Necessary Information

• Managers must be able to provide the right information to the employees for them to feel like they have some control over their work. Managers must be able to delegate tasks to the employees who are open to coming up with a solution.

7. Providing Resources

• Managers must provide the appropriate resources needed to accomplish the tasks that employees are given. Employees must have the proper trainings, equipment, development space and time.

8. Connecting to Outcomes

• The managers must be able to enable the employees to see the connection between individuals work and their outcomes. Is what they are doing important and what kind of outcome will it have? This helps foster employee empowerment.

9. Creating Confidence

• This is the relationship between the manager and employee. The Manager must be reliable, he or she must be stable, consistent, and dependable. The manager must able be fair, making clear standards for employees to follow and the manager must also be caring. They must have personal concern for their employees and validate the point of view of others.
• The manager must also have a sense of openness. They must be will be straightforward, honest and open in their relationships with no hidden agendas. And finally they must be competent. Employees must believe that the managers have the ability, experience and knowledge to perform tasks.