Organizational Empowerment-[for the betterment]

Once said "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."- This phrase what I always remember about the word "empowerment". Empowerment is defined as "the freedom and the ability of employees to make decisions and commitments. We know that a good manager is expected to assist employees to improve job success by supporting, training, leading and giving advice but I think the power that managers have should be shared also with their employees with confidence and trust that will give their employee an inspiration, and support to their company. In other words, it means giving employees the authority, opportunity, and motivation to take initiative to solve organizational problems on their own power.

Now, let’s that a look on the actual settings we have in our own organization we are in now. Are we an empowered individual employee?! Well me I think I am because based on our daily routine we are given a freedom to do our task and take corrective actions whenever problems arise, applying changes whenever necessary. And I think this is the same almost with other organization in Mindanao Companies and Organization/Institutions. This is because the upper management is so busy also with their task at hand. So, being an empowered employee it gives us the ability and the opportunity to become a self-reliant. As a result the company’s overall output increases as their employee become more effective in their work assigned.

But empowering employees also pose some issues. The empowered employee also tends to abuse their given temporary powers by doing things beyond the interest of the company or institutions. (dami nyan dito sa pinas) or since the empowered employee has the autonomous to do their work they tends to become relax and forgot their primary task.

Knowing the pros and cons of idea of empowering the employee it is still a big factor that the management still has a check and balance mechanism to make sure that the flow and order or the temporary power given the employee will not be abused.

So, let’s empowered our employees and let’s draw out the best in them.