Empowering Employees in Process-Oriented Organisations

• Authors: Natalia Potoczek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Empowerment is one of key management methods in contemporary organizations. The implementation of this method, however, is connected with creation of appropriate organizational conditions. In this article the characteristics of classical function-oriented organizations and contemporary process-oriented ones were presented, then the possibilities of applying empowerment in these organizations were analyzed. Barriers, costs and benefits of empowering employees were identified. The implementation of empowerment proves high competencies of an organization as well as it contributes to their development. Special attention was paid to the speed of making decisions and flexibility of acting and reacting to changing expectations of external and internal customers.

Keywords

EN

empowerment; process organization; functional organization; competencies; involvement

• Publisher: Fundacja Upowszechniająca Wiedze i Naukę "Cognitione" / Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University
• Journal: Management Business Innovation
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 42-51

Contributors

author

Natalia Potoczek

• Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-LouisUniversity