Employee Participation

Question 1

What is employee empowerment?

Answer 1

Employee empowerment is giving employees a degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision making on organizational tasks

Question 2

What are the advantages of empowerment?

Answer 2

1. It increases employee responsiveness to issues and problems that may ensue.
2. Empowered employees have a greater of commitment to the organization.
3. Employees feel a greater sense of job satisfaction

Question 3

What are the disadvantages of empowerment?

Answer 3

1. Boundaries of authority between managers and employees become blurry and may lead to tensions.
2. Decision-making may not be uniform because of the decentralized decision to various units and not managed by the top.
3. Highly risky among ‘go-getter’ employees as they may take risky decisions and actions.

Question 4

What is employee involvement?

Answer 4

it is a management and leadership philosophy where employees are enabled to contribute to the improvement and success of their organizations

Question 5

Employee participation takes three principal forms, these are?

Answer 5

1. broad level representation
2. joint regulation of employment issues
3. joint consultation

Question 6

What are some mechanisms for involving employees?

Answer 6

1. empowerment
2. teamworking
3. briefing groups and quality circles

Question 7

What are some forms of employee involvement?

Answer 7

1. communication – employee reports, team briefing
2. delegated decision making
3. financial participation

Question 8

What are some forms of employee participation?

Answer 8

1. worker directors
2. work councils