Quiz Q & Administrative Topics (IV / X)

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS QUESTIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TOPICS (IV / X)

Carlos Mora Vanegas

Companies to become more competitive deal with the changes, challenges, have had to restructure the organization, giving life to new administrative units with specific functions and above all, explore the importance of good management, a more participative leadership, which integrate their workers, so true to form teams, cohesive, motivated, able to perform successfully and promote the organization.

That's why in the present can not ignore what is empowerment. This question, which provides interested in the advancement of management science need to know to properly handle this knowledge.

4. Discuss the importance of empowerment for business, its definition, history, scope and impact.

Definition:

Empowerment: Anglo-Saxon term literally translated as

"Empowerment" refers to the transfer of authority and responsibility related to the true leaders work to his closest followers.

Empowerment: It comes to teach other things you can do to rely less on others. It is a strategic process that seeks a partnership relationship between the organization and its people, build trust responsibility, authority and commitment to better serve the customer.

Empowerment means strengthening or empowerment is the fact that power and authority to delegate to subordinates and give them the feeling that they are masters of their own work. In English "empowerment" and its derivatives are used in different meanings and contexts, but in Spanish the word is in conflict with a series of phrases without approaching the fullness of the noun. Approving "empowerment" with "empowerment" and "to empower" to "enhance", as they fall into disuse old expressions as "empowering" and "enable".

What is a computer with empowerment?

Are employees working groups responsible for a product, service, sharing the leadership collaborate in the work process improvement plan and make decisions related to the method of work.

Characteristics of teams empowerment:

1. They share leadership and administrative tasks

2. Members have the authority to evaluate and improve the quality of performance and process information.

3. The team provides ideas for business strategy.

4. Are committed to flexible and creative.

5. Coordinate and exchange with other teams and organizations.

6. Honesty is improved relationships with others and trust.

7. Have a positive attitude and are enthusiastic

Basic considerations and scope

The idea underlying the empowerment is that those who are directly related to a task are best placed to make a decision on the understanding that they possess the attitudes required for ellas.Empowerment means creating an environment in which employees at all levels feel they have a real impact on standards of quality, service and business efficiency within their areas of responsibility. This creates an involvement on the part of workers to achieve organizational goals with a sense of commitment and self-control and on the other hand, managers are willing to give up part of its decisional authority and give it to workers and equipment. Employee, administrative or work teams have the power to take decisions in their respective fields, this means accepting responsibility for their actions and tasks

Background:

A high percentage of the organizations created in the late decades of last century, its architecture had a clear vision of the division of labor and responsibility between managers and their closest followers. Organizational leaders of that time should do the planning and intellectual work and the fans should just do what they were told to do.

Impact, scope, contributions

Today, thanks to technological change global corporations are sighted in the process of redesigning the work and tasks so that workers be allowed to take many work-related decisions that were previously role of business . The traditional model of the manager that controls and controlled workers should switch to an empowered work environment where responsibility and support workers have the opportunity to give the best of themselves.

Dr. S.P. Robbins explains the tendency to empower employees in the following way: There are three forces driving this trend:

- Workers today are better educated and trained than those of the first half of last century.

- Global competition demands that organizations and companies are able to move quickly to improve the speed and quality of them.

- We are experiencing the effect of dismantling the organizational hierarchies, gradually eliminating middle management positions in order to reduce costs and increase sensitivity.

According to Dr. Ken Blanchard and his working group there are 3 key steps to successfully empower employees:

- Share information with everyone: leaders who are willing to share information with their employees as partners never have to successfully manage the company and will not have an empowered organization. Those without information can not act responsibly, those who have information are forced to act responsibly.

- Create autonomy through boundaries: borders have the ability to channel energy in a particular direction:

1. Purpose What business are you?

2. Values ​​What are operating expenses?

3. Image What is your vision for the future?

4. Goals what, when, where and how? It makes you

5. Roles Who does what?

6. Organizational structure and systems how do you support what you do?

- Replace the nest with cars directed teams: whose members have skills and expertise.

The empowerment of workers provides benefits to business conditions as these have qualified personnel capable of making decisions to solve specific problems. This empowerment lowers costs by reducing middle management positions at both companies are going towards this goal

Characteristics of Companies that have experienced the Empowerment.

The position belongs to everyone. The person has a responsibility, not the boss or supervisor, or another department. The positions create value, because the person who is in them. People know where they stand at any time. People have the power over the way things are done. The post is part of what the person is. The person has control over their work

* Reference: www.puntolog.com www.educom.on.ca / empowerm.htm www. Monografias.com. Chichi Páez "Empowerment" (Empowerment). The Carabobeño Page C6. 04 -06 - 2001

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