ENHANCING EFFECTIVENESS

AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH

EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT
"An empowered organization is one in which
individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and
opportunity to personally succeed in a way that
leads to collective organizational success."
- Stephen Covey
 EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT

“Empowerment is the processes of enabling and

permitting authority for an individual to think, behave,
take action, control work and in decision making
autonomously.”

IN SHORT

“Giving authority with the responsibility”

WHY EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT?

Effective utilization of human resource.

Making employee innovative.

Making employee responsible for result.

Finest way of employee retention.

Discover creative and effective employee.

 BEST PRACTICES

TOYOTA:
 “Employee Suggestion Scheme.”
 2,00,000 suggestion every year.
 95% of suggestion have been implemented.
 Through this organizational development and
personal development is effectively done.
SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICE LTD:

 “Idea Junction”
A creative idea portal for employees to key in
their ideas.
Implemented ideas calls for points earned by the
employee who is then suitably rewarded.
GENERAL ELECTRICS:

 GE Medical System (GEMS) is the most

profitable business unit of the GE.
 Empowered its employees to handle dealers and
franchisees.
 Given authority to make decisions of sensitive
matters.
 Authorized to take projects and alter it to
achieve greater quality and to improve
productivity.
HCL TECHNOLOGIES:

 Employees are empowered to review their

managers and appraise them.

 Everyone can review employee assessments of

their bosses—including their performance,
strategic vision, ability to communicate, problem-
solving skills, and responsiveness.
EUREKA FORBES:

 Started a scheme called

‘EURO SHARE’ , where employees are
encouraged to give ideas to cut on wasteful
expenses.

 The scheme helped the company to save Rs 26

Lakhs on packing materials, in Andhra Pradesh for
the month of August alone.
SUZLON ENERGY:

 One of the well known ‘wind power’ company.

 Company has created a ‘knowledge portal’, where
employees are free to give suggestions & ideas on any
matter pertaining to the organization.
 Employee empowerment helped the company to
secure a profit to 108% during 2007-08.
 CONCLUSION
 Employee empowerment is a MUST ,looking at the
present globalized scenario where there is tough
competition .
 Employee empowerment is the smart way of
getting work done effectively and effeciently.
 To implement organizational changes ,employee
empowerment is the best method.
 Employee empowerment is the BEST way to
employee retention.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea
lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

-John F Kennedy.

Empowering employees brings out the best Ideas &

innovations to sustain global competition.