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Empowerment : a practical guide for success / Cynthia D. Scott, Dennis T. Jaffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Cynthia D.
- Series:
- Fifty-Minute series.
- A Fifty-Minute series book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employee empowerment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (102 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Generate excitement and ownership in every level of your organization by using this step-by-step plan for empowerment.
- Contents:
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1 The Road to Empowerment
- THE ROAD TO EMPOWERMENT
- Why Empowerment?
- What is Empowerment?
- From the Inside-To the Outside
- Freedom versus Control
- The Empowerment Balance
- Checking Your Empowerment Level
- CHAPTER 2 From the Pyramid to the Circle
- FROM THE PYRAMID TO THE CIRCLE
- The Evolving Organization
- THE PYRAMID
- Characteristics of the Pyramid
- THE CIRCLE
- Characteristics of the Circle
- Where Are You?
- Your Changing Organization
- The Road to Empowerment
- CHAPTER 3 Testing the Climate for Empowerment
- TESTING THE CLIMATE FOR EMPOWERMENT
- Key Qualities of Empowered Workplaces
- Assessing Empowerment
- UNDERSTANDING YOUR SCORES
- CHAPTER 4 Three Paths to Empowerment
- THREE PATHS TO EMPOWERMENT
- Empowerment Is Total
- First- and Second-Order Change
- Moving Mindsets
- Process, Responsibility, Learning
- TOWARD PROCESS
- TOWARD RESPONSIBILITY
- TOWARD LEARNING
- The Core Mind Shifts
- Organizational Redesign
- THE ROLE OF QUALITY
- Levels of Change
- HOW TO START SECOND-ORDER CHANGE
- Steps to Second-Order Change
- EMPOWERMENT IS SECOND-ORDER CHANGE
- Changes To Create Empowerment
- CHAPTER 5 Motivating Through Self-Esteem
- MOTIVATING THROUGH SELF-ESTEEM
- Work Satisfies Human Needs
- What Motivates Your Employees?
- Everyone Can Be a VIP
- Validation
- Information
- Participation
- How Anger Affects Work
- CRITICISM
- KEEPING CONTROL AND ALWAYS BEING RIGHT
- Self-Esteem at the Workplace
- The New Work Contract: Mutuality
- Forging the New Work Contract
- BENEFITS OF MUTUALITY
- Foundations for Mutuality
- 1. Shared Assessment
- 2. Problem-Solving Orientation
- 3. Growth and Learning
- CHAPTER 6 Developing Collaborative Relationships
- DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS.
- The Death of Paternalism
- History of Collaboration
- UNDERSTANDING COLLABORATION
- STEPS TO COLLABORATION
- Learning to Solve Problems Together
- PITFALLS OF PASSIVITY
- The Experience of Collaboration
- Directive and Collaborative Styles
- Comparing Management Styles
- Concerns and Fears about Collaboration
- Checking Your Style
- CHAPTER 7 Establishing Facilitative Leadership
- ESTABLISHING FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP
- The Facilitative Leader and the Empowered Team
- Creating a Climate for Learning
- ARE YOU A LEARNER?
- Blame Placing versus Problem Solving
- SEARCHING FOR PROBLEMS
- LIBERATING CREATIVITY
- The Facilitative Leader Role
- Shifting to Facilitative Leadership
- CHAPTER 8 Building Empowered Teams
- BUILDING EMPOWERED TEAMS
- The Nature of the Empowered Team
- Techniques to Create Empowerment
- Empowerment Focus
- Group Synergy
- Sharing Responsibility
- EXPANDING RESPONSIBILITY
- Action Ideas for Team Empowerment
- EXAMPLES OF EMPOWERED TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES
- Levels of Decision Making
- Thinking About Your Decision Style
- GENERATING COMMITMENT
- Clarifying Team Decisions
- Decision Funnel
- Double-Responsibility Decision Making
- Elements of an Empowered Team
- RESPECT
- INFORMATION
- CONTROL AND DECISION MAKING
- RESPONSIBILITY
- SKILLS
- CHAPTER 9 Influencing Organizational Change
- INFLUENCING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
- EMPOWERMENT AND THE ORGANIZATION
- Organizational Barriers
- ORGANIZATIONAL ADVOCACY
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-2205-4
- OCLC:
- 70724897
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