Empowerment

Mustafa Al-Abdallah

Group D presentation

EMBA Batch 3

Dec 06, 2013

Agenda

Think of Your Self

Real Case Study

Lessons from Steve Jobs

Important Concepts about Empowerment

Definition

Definition of Empowerment

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Empowerment

Empowermentsharing varying degrees of power with lower-level employees to tap their full potential

World Bank says:

“Empowerment is the process of increasing

the capacity of individuals or groups to make

choices and to transform those choices into

desired actions and outcomes.”

Important Concepts about

Empowerment

We are the Leaders (or Bosses) of our Own Life

Friends Family

ChildrenWork Bosses

Home BossesSignificant

Others

Empowerment is every where:

Empower yourself firstBreak the glass ceiling

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To become empowered

Take responsibility

Share responsibility

Enhance personal & team creativity

Be prepared

Maintain balance b/w work & life

Do a job with enjoyment

Keep learning

Empowering Others

To empower others, a Leader Needs:

Position

Relationship

Respect

Commitment

If you are trying to do it all, you are

harming your organization.

In attempting to do it all, leaders find themselves:

1. Working overtime

2. Spread too thin

3. Attending unnecessary seminars/meetings

4. Taking on others’ work

5. Rescuing others

6. Neglecting leadership duties

7. Feeling overwhelmed and burning out

8. Feeling frustrated and guilty for not getting things done

9. Neglecting their personal lives

10. Creating a bottleneck in the organization

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It is a WIN-WIN game

Empowerment is a Process Determining the skill level

Providing training as needed

Assign & Delegate important tasks.

Coaching tasks

Help build strong relationships.

Give visibility and recognition.

It is a two-way process

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Benefits :

Improved employer satisfaction.

By being shared, organizational power can grow.

Employees to perform better.

Increases trust in the organization.

Reduces Turnover rates.

Complications

Giving up control can be threatening to

some managers.

Managers may not want to share power

with someone they look down upon.

Managers fear losing their own place and

special privileges in the system.

Real Case Study:

Story of YIC Student

AbdulAziz Al Hawash

Training In Samref

If you feel you are

dis-empowered

Think about yourself after

seeing this

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