...Motivation and Empowerment Paper Team A CJA/474 June 2, 2015 Katherine Gustafson Motivation and Empowerment Paper “The essence of empowerment is to release, rather than ignore or underutilize, employees’ experience, initiative, knowledge, and wisdom. Employee performance is a major factor that leads to the success or failure of a business (K. Fracaro, 2006)” The components of empowerment are defined as the four ingredients “powering” empowerment are: participation; delegation; capitalization; and trust. The foundational values of trust are depending on participation; delegation, and capitalization to form this fractional structure (P. Whisenand J. McCain, 2014). We are the architects building a structure of empowerment, trust is a moral duty that gives this foundation the strength to hold up the other components to the structure. Empowerment is built on an employer’s trusted relationship that allows the development of ideas invoking the enhancement their employees’ skills, motivating them to be responsible and accountable for their actions giving way to molding a positive competence and satisfaction for the work completed. Management exercise the art of sharing information and rewards, sparking the willingness to have the initiative and make decisions and solving problems along with improving the services and performance of the employee. Empowerment is a theory collectively formed by conjoining components resembling community development, economics, and studies of social...
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...receiver. Recently, Blog have become a significant platform to act as an online community for social interaction. With its simplify structure, blog followers can access post easily, join conversation and receive information that they needed (Chung and Kim, 2008). However, these advance in technology have become major reason to shift empowerment from organization, producer and marketer to individuals. In simple words, consumers are having more power over producer. In marketing concept, this consumer power cause the adoption of product-push approach to shift to consumption-pull strategy (Shankar et. al, 2006). In respected to this issue, practitioners have started investigate on empowerment from different perspective. However, most of the literature reviews are focusing on theoretical structure analysis. Few studies are done on travel blog and cancer patient blog in relation to empowerment. However, research methods are mainly questioning third person by questionnaire and focus group. Researcher sets the choice of answers, therefore result are limited and may not be accurate. Since, there is lack of health living blog analysis in related to empowerment level over time. Therefore, we are proposing a research on...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Paper Trina Dorsey, Latoya Jenkins, Mercheryl Moore, Sharlanda Smith-Lazard & Burnell Thompson CJA474 September 25, 2015 Laura Gremillion, Facilitator Introduction In the world of criminal justice organizations motivation and empowerment are of importance. In any organization, to be successful, motivation and empowerment from the employees are crucial. In policing, instead of being fearful with the thought of doing something wrong, there are officers who are achievement-oriented and who expend maximum effort when he or she is in the field (Gui, 2012). Both motivation and empowerment are of great importance in relation to the success on the philosophies, which involve problem solving techniques, COMPSTAT, and community policing. All personnel of a criminal justice organization are expected to take ownership of his or her assigned areas and activities while being more proactive in his or her duties. Everything in the world of criminal justice involves strong communication skills, and communication brings motivation and empowerment to others of the organization (Terrill, 2014). Compare motivation and empowerment The meaning of motivation and empowerment are somewhat similar but also very different. These terms have several different meanings. Motivation is a noun and a behavioral description of stimulation, enthusiasm, ambition, or inspiration. According to The Free Dictionary (2014), motivation...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Team B CJA/474 May 5, 2014 Ashley Webb Motivation and Empowerment Motivation and empowerment are very important aspects of leadership in any organization. Halting someone with ambition serves no purpose; however, many in leadership roles who do not understand the front line theories involved serve to offer nothing but confusion and discourse among their men. According to “More, Vito, and Walsh” (2012), “Motivation is a predictor of overall effort as an individuals ability, and an organizations support will determine the level of an officers job performance (p. 181). Knowing this concept wins, in this paper we will compare motivation and empowerment, discuss components of empowerment, and implications of empowerment to an organization, as well as the roles of trust with personnel issues. Comparing Motivation and Empowerment Motivation and empowerment go hand and hand, let’s start by defining what is Motivation? The process, by which a person’s efforts are energized, directed and sustained toward attaining a goal. Someone who is motivated will forth effort and work hard to accomplish their goal, and they will channel their energy in doing what is best the company, and one will stay the course and be diligent and persistent in achieving the goal. What is Empowerment? It involves helping others build their own power bases, most company will go all out by empowering their workers with tools that will benefit their business and help the company...
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...A PROJECT REPORT ON The Impact of Empowerment on Employee Effectiveness and Employee Responsiveness in Banking sector of Mysore Submitted by Deeksha.B USN-4JC10MBA35 Submitted to VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM, INDIA In December 2011 In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the award of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Under the guidance of Mr Girish Baga Assistant Professor Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering, Mysore Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering JSS Technical Institutions Campus, Mysore 570006 Autonomous institution affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University DECLARATION I,Deeksha.B , USN 4JC10MBA35 a student of Master of Business Administration at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, JSS Technical Institution Campus, Mysore, India hereby declare that this project report titled “The Impact of Empowerment on Employee Effectiveness and Employee Responsiveness” is a record of an original and independent work carried out by me during the period july to december in the 3rd semester of the course under the guidance of Mr. Girish Baga Master of Business Administration, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, JSS Technical Institution Campus, Mysore, India submitted to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Masters of Business Administration. I further declare that this project work and...
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...development create opportunities of advancement. Everyone has their individual, uniquely defined definition of personal responsibility. Any definition of personal responsibility encompasses various components. In this essay I will be discussing the components that suit my definition of personal responsibility, and how they relate to each other. These components are personal freedom, empowerment, trust, opportunity, and self-determination. I will also be discussing the correlation between personal responsibility and educational success, as well as, sharing my preliminary plan for practicing personal responsibility in my educational goals. When you accept personal responsibility you are utilizing your personal freedom in a positive manner. You are making a conscious choice to move yourself into a level of maturity. You are able to acknowledge your actions and decisions, and readily accept the consequences of your actions and decisions. Appropriate use of personal freedom will produce appropriate outcomes. When you receive appropriate outcomes, you experience empowerment vs. reaping an outcome that becomes a consequence; in which case you experience discouragement and self-doubt. As you can see, personal freedom directly correlates with empowerment. Through empowerment of self you gain the motivation and self assurance to control an exigent environment and the ultimate outcome. “Exigence is an outside force, an imperative, difficulty, emergency, or other situation...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Jeanie Lofton CJA/474 January 27, 2014 Thomas Collins Motivation and Empowerment In the workplace motivation is not about what you do for your employees but, more so about the work that you empower employees to do for you. Many things could come to mind when it comes to motivating your employees such as paying annual bonuses, awarding time off, etc… Research shows that while these incentives exist is could create short-term productivity and in turn create a long term effect of de-motivation. This is because once you provide these rewards they will always be expected. The focus should be on motivators that include achievement, responsibility, advancement, growth, and meaningful work. No matter what type of work environment motivating and empowering a workplace just allows a greater chance of stability. In order to gain a better understating for this matter we will compare motivation and empowerment, define the components of empowerment, analyze the implications of empowerment, and the role of trust in personnel issues. Compare motivation and empowerment In comparing the two, empowerment and motivation, they make employees productive in their goals. They work together; when a person is given the empowerment to have something to do they must have the motivation to do it. Motivation and empowerment are two terms that are important in just about every workplace. Normally when motivation is spoken in the workplace it is given from the employer...
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...debates over the issue of women empowerment: the unequivocal nucleus for all forums seeking to lift the traditional veil and impart a more meaningful existence to woman : the inseparable companion, the ever caring mother, the doting wife, who has since times immemorial been relegated to the background. This paper attempts to analyze the status of empowerment of women and highlight the issues and challenges they are in. It tries to analyze the need of women’s participation in the political process, social, economic and the overall developmental progress of Ghana largely to be judged on the basis of their political awareness, their capability of decision making in a male dominated society, their consciousness about various issues concerned with women viz. providing education to girls, health , nutrition, fighting against dowry, inclusion in the society, economic freedom, etc. It looks into the dynamism of the process whereby women empowerment is achieved and seeks to analyze whether participation of women does in fact translate into concrete women empowerment : a state where women are able to carve a niche for themselves in the traditional male bastion and successfully find a forum for effective redressal of women related issues or whether increased political participation of women, is but an eyewash , an essential dexterous jugglery of numbers with no female empowerment ramifications whatsoever. MEANING OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Empowerment of women is essentially the process...
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...Literature Review Charismatic Leadership Introduction Charismatic leadership is the guidance provided to an organization by one or more individuals seen as heroic or inspiring and who have therefore been granted the organizational power to make dramatic changes and extract extraordinary performance levels from its staff (businessdictionary.com). Charismatic Leadership is comprised of three components: envisioning, empathy, and empowerment. These key components stimulate followers' need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power. This paper will clarify the core features of charismatic leadership by identifying its three core components: envisioning, empathy, and empowerment. This study was intended to develop a theoretical model of charismatic leadership which highlights its motivational effects on followers and to discuss how charismatic leaders affect his/her followers. The author suggests that the behaviors of a charismatic leader and the enhanced followers' needs promote clearer role perceptions, improved task performance, greater job satisfaction, stronger collective identity and group cohesiveness, more organizational citizenship behaviors, and stronger self-leadership among the followers. Shamir and his colleagues (1993) emphasized the need for research on the motivational effects behind a charismatic leader's success in leading followers to transcend...
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...What is empowerment ? ‘Empowerment is not about wresting power from an individual or group of individuals and handling it over to another. It is the means to an end, not an end in itself.’ (Schuler & Hashemi,1994) The dictionary defines empowerment as giving authority or power to others. As a general definition, however, we suggest that empowerment is a multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power (that is, the capacity to implement) in people, for use in their own lives, their communities, and in their society, by acting on issues that they define as important. We suggest that three components of our definition are basic to any understanding of empowerment. Empowerment is multi-dimensional, social, and a process. It is multi-dimensional in that it occurs within sociological, psychological, economic, and other dimensions. Empowerment also occurs at various levels, such as individual, group, and community. Empowerment, by definition, is a social process, since it occurs in relationship to others. Empowerment is a process that is similar to a path or journey, one that develops as we work through it. Other aspects of empowerment may vary according to the specific context and people involved, but these remain constant. In addition, one important implication of this definition of empowerment is that the individual and community are fundamentally connected. Our focus as leaders is on quality, productivity...
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...Leadership in Nursing Lisa Starnes University of Mount Olive Leadership in Nursing Leadership has many different types of theories associated with it. In the article, Authentic Leadership, Empowerment and Burnout: A Comparison in New Graduates and Experienced Nurses, Laschinger, Wong, and Grau (2013) “examine the effect of authentic leadership and structural empowerment on the emotional exhaustion and cynicism of new graduates and experienced acute-care nurses” (p. 541). Retaining nurses is critical, especially since the current workforce is reaching retirement age, in regards to the maintaining patient care standards. However, more nurses are reporting increased stress levels, dissatisfaction with the difficult working environments, as well as health concerns. In Canada, a government study identified that nurses absentee rates related to illness were 58% higher than any other labor force (Laschinger, Wong, & Grau, 2013, p. 541). Depression, as well as poor physical health are a few conditions resulting from the stress nurses experience from difficult working conditions. Nursing burnout affects more than just the nurse’s health, it also affects the quality of care the patient receives, which in turn links to increased mortality rates (Laschinger et al., 2013, p. 542). In addition, Laschinger et al. (2013) point out that with the current nursing shortage, healthy working environments must be implemented to retain experienced, as well as new graduate nurses from leaving...
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...Managing Internal Cost & Controlling – Developing & Maintaining Quality – Managing Operations JCT2 Supply Chain Task 1 Western Governor’s University Introduction My company name was Arete Sytems. Arete is an ancient Greek term meaning “excellence of any kind”. The choice of name was intended to represent the quality, high-end systems that we would produce. B1. Using Budgets and Pro-Forma Statements to Plan Production Capacity One of my key lessons from this simulation was the importance of working in teams and openly discussing decisions that need to be made before making them. I approached the simulation as the only team member because the simulation didn’t include other participants. In retrospect, I would have assigned other members, at least in my mind, to gain additional team insights. I was not careful enough in setting pricing for my two products correctly in the second quarter when we actually began sales. I priced my high end Mercedes line accidentally at the price I had planned for my mainstream Workhorse line and vice-versa. I did not look closely enough at my pro forma cash flow or income statements to recognize the forecasted loss and as a result did not dig deep enough to see the reasons and to make the adjustments in pricing. I was overly focused on cash at that point to fund production capacity. I discovered the error when evaluating second quarter actuals. Going into third quarter planning, I looked at the pro forma cash flow...
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...Motivation and Empowerment Paper CJA/474 Motivation and Empowerment Paper Introduction The criminal justice field is one that centers on motivation and empowerment amongst employees. These are concepts that not only guide, but also maintain constructive behaviors. Motivation and empowerment are that force every professional needs to preserve their goals and ambitions. This paper will provide three academic theories of motivation including an explanation on each theory. It will also define empowerment and its components. Next, it will compare and contrast motivation and empowerment. In this paper there will also be an evaluation on the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization. Lastly this paper will outline the theory of Transformational Leadership and contrast the roles of motivation and empowerment in leadership style. Define and state at least three (3) academic theories of motivation In any organization the key role of managers is the motivation of their personnel. This can be done in many different ways. This section will discuss three academic theories on how to properly motivate employees. The first theory is Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. This theory states that certain needs have to be met before an individual will work towards fulfilling other needs. The first set of needs that need to be met our survival needs; they include things such as food water and air. Until these needs are met an individual cannot focus...
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...discussion on how the programs work in reducing juvenile crime, and based on the analysis of the relationship between program premise and goals and one or more major causes of juvenile delinquent behavior. In another discussion, there will be explanations of what the two intervention programs major goals are, the programs objectives, and what the programs core beliefs are. The key participants that are involved in these programs will also be explained, as well as what services they provide for the youth. The last discussion will be identifying which one of the programs between the two is more effective at reducing juvenile crime and why. The two programs that I have chosen are the Father and Son prevention Program, and the YES (Youth Empowerment Solutions) prevention program. The Father and Son project is in Michigan and is a program designed for African American fathers and their sons ranging in age from 10-14 ("Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center", 2015). The Father and Son prevention Program is aimed to heighten the parenting behaviors as well as reducing the risk of youth behaviors. With this program, it helps the father and son bond so that way in the future the son would not have self-esteem issues or would feel left out. The Father and Son program helps in reducing juvenile crime by engaging in equally beneficial activities to enhance the relationship between the youth and the youth’s father ("Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center", 2015). I also helps in reducing...
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...the power structure of society is strengthened by the force of tradition ,values,history and by the prevalent ways of thinking and behaving.Any effort to change the balance of power entails change in the existing power structure. Women's empowerment is the process by which women negotiate a more equitable distribution of power , a greater space in the critical decision making processes in the home ,in the community and in the economic and political life.The aim of empowerment of women is the fuller and wholesome development of both men and women. Empowerment of women is anti-men.It is against patriarchy.Changes in law pertaining to marriage ,property,sexual harassment ,dowry,rape and other forms of violence,so as to bring in laws favouring or supporting women's empowerment are necessary but not enough.Enabling women to actually access to the benefits of appropriate laws is the key task of the empowerment process. The process of empowerment which seeks an equitable and active share for women has to deal with the burden of ideas and values which are passed on to women as part of their socialisation process from their very childhood.This social conditioning becomes part of her person and mindset and influences her behaviour.The empowerment process must begin with women changing their own ways of thinking and behaving .They must try to appreciate themselves more and to recognise and value their knowledge and skills and their contribution of the sustainability of the households...
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