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Empowering
Ordinary People for Extraordinary Results
- - PVL Raju
Companies
tend to receive extraordinary results from ordinary people,
and as a result, become successful. It will be amazing if
the companies can understand and be sensitive to the extraordinary
potential of the employees. It embodies on the fact that trust
acts as a barrier between the employees and the management.
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Creating
the Empowered
- - Daniel Ashish and Abhinaya C
Creating
the empowered in the real sense requires a relentless pursuit
of the transfer of power and authority with missionary zeal
and sacrificial intent, faith to trust the respective empowered
individual. Empowerment, like love, thrives on freedom. Interpersonal
trust, belief in abilities, unflinching support and genuine
concern for people, are the cornerstones for empowering individuals.
Empowerment as an initiative should germinate in the hearts
and the minds of the individuals.
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Employee
Empowerment: The Pros and Cons
- - Sireesha Mamidenna
Employee
empowerment has become a buzzword in today's business. But
empowerment means different things to different people. It
is a process that has to be initiated and supported all through
by the top management, for achieving visible results. Earlier
efforts had mixed results as freedom was seen as a reactionary
force meant to counter top management hegemony. "Empowerment"
today means striking a mutually accepted balance that gives
a shared sense of responsibility. It makes the employers and
employees partners working for common goals. The art of achieving
results through empowerment would hence mean finding ways
to tackle counteractive forces and chart out a common path.
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Empowerment
of Employees: A Myth?
- - GRK Murty
The
Upanishads are said to contain six Mahavakyasgreat sayings.
One of them is "Aham Brahmosmi" "I am that infinite". What
an assertion! It identifies the inmost consciousness of the
individual with that of the Supreme Divine. It poses a question,
of course, from a different perspective: Why this comparison
"I am that"; why this longing for associating ourselves with
what we think is the highest? The very living, which is a
repetitive affair resulting in a kind of crudeness, brutality,
making us dull, stupid, and insensitive, might have compelled
seers of yore to search for a better meaning of life. Thus
came the preaching: Associate with God, the highest, for a
quality of refinement which alone can afford meaning, and
a purpose to life. A kind of getting empowered, of course
extrinsically, to experience a state of absolute, permanent,
eternal peace. For this to become a reality, longing for empowerment
must come from within; else, externally infused empowerment
remains a mere myth.
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Employee
Empowerment: A Workplace Strategy for Motivation
- - Radha Mohan Chebolu
The
concept of "employee empowerment" in the corporate world is
about the need for a revolutionary, integrated, employee-oriented
leadership philosophy, with an emphasis on transformation
of an organization by tapping into the full potential of every
employee. This article examines the concept from different
dimensions and also examines its impact on the motivation
levels of the organization in an analytical framework. The
HR agenda towards motivation of employees by taking cue from
empowerment strategies has also been discussed.
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Employee
Empowerment and Cultural Dimensions
- - Anuradha Patra
This
article provides an insight into employee involvement, participation
and empowerment, which are used interchangeably as strong
assets of an organization, but their interpretations are different.
It enumerates the merits and demerits of empowering employees
and a model for empowerment. This sound management tool also
has its connection with culture, which is related to leadership,
motivation and organization structure.
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EMERGING
TRENDS
Employment
20l0
- - Ganesh Chella
Increase
in the outsourcing process has enabled the government to endorse
changes in the process of managing employment as it can no
longer invest in a big way in education, and the cost of education
will drive the younger ones to join the workforce. This article
sheds light on the employment scenario in 2010.
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WOMEN
AND MANAGEMENT
Women
Managers at the threshold of gender equality
- - K Mallikarjunan
The
rare endowment of capacity for endurance enables women managers
to explore the possibilities of compromises and amicable settlements
in cases of dispute, unlike their male counterparts who tend
to be a little impulsive and even dogmatic on occasions. Further,
the women also have an innate desire to build up things, be
they business relationships, collective approaches, or cooperative
initiatives. Fighting against male prejudices, social injunctions
and domestic compulsions, they are heading fast towards the
goal of "gender equality".
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QUALITY
OF WORK LIFE
Role
of Work Behavior in Information Technology Management
- - Samavedam Srinivas and Vishnumurty Narra
Just
as primitive mining technology produced its corresponding
primitive work behavior patterns so the modern, Information
Technology is calling for its corresponding modern behavior
patterns based on sophisticated work ideas, work attitude
and work culture at large.
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