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People Empowerment is Critical to Motivating People and Organizational Success

Our Mission is "Empowering People to Drive Productivity."



Strategic human resource management is about "empowering people" in order for them to have some form of control over what they are doing and in attaining what they are required to. This gives them motivation.

Making resources available and implementing enabling organizational infrastructures in the form of sound policies, rules, systems and procedures are necessary for "people empowerment" to work.

It also means taking calculated risks. Thus, the importance of having effective risks management capabilities, skills and system.

Employee Empowerment
When applied to the workplace, when we speak of people empowerment we refer specifically to employees. Thus, we talk of "employee empowerment."

What does this mean?
Productivity is the means by which your organization achieves positive financial outcomes. And high productivity means, among others, lower costs and higher revenue. This is the objective of each and every profit-oriented organizations.

In education it means ensuring school-going children are provided with well-rounded learning. This needs to include self-management skills and other skills necessary for "living."

Education needs to make school children or students feel and believe that they will have some form of control over their future lives. This is about people empowered by education and able to pursue their chosen career.

"People empowerment" also means helping adults in facing the various challenges in their lives. For example, effective parenting skills are essential in the face of increasing threats to the family institution.

Survival skills in the face of economic turmoil and threats to one's sources of food are necessary. This includes personal finance management skills.

It means helping citizens of whatever belief or cultural background to have control over events in their daily lives. This includes giving them the opportunity to improve their lot, to have access to college education and pursue careers of their choice, among others.

Knowledge and skills acquisition will go a long way in realizing the target of "people empowerment." This is the information age. There is no reason why people cannot improve their station in life. They only need to have the "opportunity."

Increased Productivity
Productivity can mean output or efficiency.

Productivity is the result of what you and your people do. It is the fruit of the one's hard work and sweat. Empowerment contributes to this state of things.

Some writers define 'productivity' as: "The ratio of output (goods and services) produced per unit of input (productive resources) over some period of time."

Simply put, productivity us what you accomplish over a period of time using your time and effort with the necessary help to do the task.
Planning forms a good part of this.


The Workplace Scenario
In order to obtain positive results, you need to plan, using the right strategies to ensure that you can accomplish what you set out to do and obtain the fruits of your endeavors.

The need for people empowerment requires that your management team does this.

Giving HR a place in the strategic planning team is an important step in people empowerment.

Effectiveness and Efficiency
Effectiveness refers to how well you and your people can perform tasks and achieve planned targets.

Efficiency improvement requires implementation of enabling processes and procedures, policies and rules.

These must support your employees as they go about performing their duties and responsibilities on a daily basis.

"Enabling" means helping or facilitating the accomplishment of a desired result or something that allows people to carry out an action to attain a certain aim.

Measurement of the results will determine the effectiveness of these policies, rules and procedures to help attain organizational objectives.

The results normally refer to the productivity level as compared to the defined targets.

Once you know these you can take action depending on the outcomes.

Empowering People have Positive Results on Bottom-line
Here, people refers to your employees, your human resource. They are your most important asset. Without them your organization cannot achieve much.


To empower means providing all the means that will help your people achieve what you want them to achieve.

This means giving them the necessary authority to do things and to make decisions within the area of their daily tasks and responsibilities.

Clearly define the conditions under which you allow employees to exercise such authority.

The more senior the position of the employee is the more authority you can give.

Ensure that a monitoring system is in place or implement a system of checks and balances. Review the position at the first sign of misuse of authority.

Where you consider it necessary, make the exercise of certain authority subject to compulsory vetting by a superior, a supervisor or a manager. Make this as part of your risks management strategy.

You may have quality employees but they are not able to accomplish the objectives of their jobs. What can you expect from mediocre (average) ones for apart from lack of enabling structures they have work apathy?

"Empowerment" can motivate even average employees.

Process of Empowerment
One of the instances under "people empowerment" is to delegate more responsible to your people.

Lack of trust hinders delegation.

Instead delegate and provide all the necessary supports to maximize effectiveness and efficiency in implementing "people empowerment" in the workplace.

Why do you need to delegate?
You cannot do everything by yourself. You need the help of other people.

Besides motivating and developing employees, delegating will free valuable time that you can use to do other tasks that are important, urgent or need more time and attention.

Principles of Empowerment
One of the greatest benefit of empowerment is demonstrated by the Pygmalion Effect and the Galatea Effect. Employees self-expectation and your expectation of them show the power of expectation and trust in improving performance for the long-term.

There are many ways in empowering people. Practice these and your people will achieve the required targets.

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