The word empowerment means to
authorize, enable, and permit.

Ideally, empowerment of employees results in increased initiative, involvement, enthusiasm, innovation and speed, all in support of the company's vision.

Defining, inspiring and encouraging empowerment is the job of leadership.

 Middle management needs to be assured that subordinate empowerment is for their personal gain as well as the collective good of the firm. If this cannot be accomplished a non-conforming individual may need to be removed from the firm before a cultural transformation takes place in order to avoid conflict. 

 

Employee Empowerment

Benefits

Empower and Energize Employees

Suggestion System

Creative Leadership

DOs and DON'Ts

How To Become a Creative Leader

Loose-Tight Leadership

 

 

 

However, traditional leadership in a multi level organisational structure may be fearful of empowering their subordinates in anxiety that ideas and initiatives from 'below' may undermine their authority and ultimately their position in the firm.

This is indeed a struggle but may be overcome by clear, ongoing communication and commitment from the top of the firm down. 

 

 

 

Middle management needs to be assured that subordinate development and empowerment is for their personal gain as well as the collective good of the firm. If this cannot be accomplished a non-conforming individual may need to be removed from the firm before a cultural transformation takes place and new management model is established in order to avoid conflict. 

 

Creative Management

Encourage Generation of Radical Ideas

Find the Right Fit for Every Employee

 

 

 

Your company must have a Head of Growth who would empower authors of most promising ideas to become intrapreneurs or leaders of idea-implementation projects.

 

Head of Growth

Entrepreneurial Organization

 

 

 

INNOBALL Innovation Brainball entrepreneurial simulation game INNOBALL (Innovation Brainball) entrepreneurial simulation game will help empowered innovators achieve amazing results.

 

KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools

Balloon  ▪  Rope

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idea Procurement and Implementation

Empowerment

Believing in Your People

Communication

Accommodating Personal Idiosyncrasies

Positively Influencing Intrinsic Motivation

Harvesting Emotional Energy

Freedom to Fail and Changing Pace Quickly

 

Innovation-friendly Organization

How To Build and Innovation-friendly Organization

Top Management

Cross-functional Innovation Teams

 

 

   

By Australian Business Limited and Australian Commonwealth ITR Department.
Adapted by Dean Prebble, Prof. Howard Frederick, and Vadim, Ten3 NZ