This document discusses employee empowerment. It defines empowerment as sharing information, delegating tasks, pushing decision making down the hierarchy, tolerating mistakes, and creating a sense of ownership. Guidelines for effective empowerment include encouraging feedback, cultivating an executive mentality in subordinates, and presenting new challenges. Benefits of empowerment include increased productivity, enthusiasm, morale, quality, teamwork, and competitiveness as well as decreased emotional impact from restructuring. Empowerment is not about bypassing rules or doing others' fun jobs.
6. Sharing Information
First Step towards empowerment
Help subordinates in
understanding the objective
Enable Juniors as well as Seniors
to plan independently and
effectively
Create awareness in organisation
Excessive information sharing
can be tricky to handle
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11. THE 10 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL
DELEGATION
1. Define the task
2. Select individual
3. Assess ability and training need
4. Explain WHY
5. State required results
6. Identify required resources
7. Agree on a schedule
8. Support and communicate
9. Provide feedback on results
10.REPEAT THE PROCESS…
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12. Remember…
Work can be delegated but “Not
the Accountability”
Delegate Authority along with
responsibility
Don’t Dump the Work
Don’t take the “Fun Part” out of
the delegated job
Delegate through subordinates not
around them
Provide Adequate Support
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14. Push Decision Making Downward
Less Meetings and of course fewer Presentations
Increase Creativity and Collective Intelligence of
the Organisation
Reduce time wastage
Increased Production Pace
Personnel become more responsible and feel as
part of organisation
Frees Senior to plan, focus on priorities and
pursue new opportunities
Ease out identification and Grooming of future
leaders
Remember…It doesn’t mean firing a bullet from
Somebody else shoulder
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16. Tolerate Mistakes
Failure is a prerequisite to invention
Leniency toward mistake-Gravity of mistake and
person who commit
To avoid frequent mistakes in organisation-Be
judicious in handing over responsibility to
subordinates
Never take it personal- Guide your subordinate and
address the root of the problem
Zero Error Syndrome- Poor performers will recognise
a safe harbour, good performers will become
disillusioned and leave/become poor performers.
Bottom line- tolerate mistakes that are unintentionally
and honestly done, and make the erring subordinate
understand the consequences of these mistakes.
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18. Create a Sense of Ownership
Compelling Mission motivate people to
have a sense of ownership
Transparency cultivates Sense of
Ownership
Tolerating freeloaders undermines a
sense of ownership. Why committed
persons should act like an owner when
drifters (dead weight) is ignored?
Bureaucracy goes down…Standards go
up
People feel valued…Cogs in a machine
feel used
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20. What Empowerment is NOT?
Throwing out the “Rule
Book”
Bypassing everyone who will
say “No”
Doing the “Fun Part” of
someone else’s Job
Freedom to unilaterally make
decision that impact others
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22. Guidelines for Effective Empowerment
Encourage In-the-Moment
Feedback
Cultivate Executive
Mentality
Present New Challenges
and Opportunities
Don’t toss them out to Lions
Don’t Babysit
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