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Major Topics
Employee Empowerment
Leadership and Change
Employee Empowerment
Rationale
An aspect of Working Smart
Empowerment is the key to
motivation & Productivity.
It enables a person to develop
personally & professionally.
Inhibitors of Empowerment
Resistance from Employees & Unions
Resistance from Management
Insecurity
Personal Values
Ego
Management Training
Personality Characteristics of Managers
Exclusion of Managers
Workforce Readiness
Organizational Structure & Management Practices
Implementing Empowerment:
Development of Suggestion Systems (Fig 8.3)
Considering the Employees Point of View
Putting Vehicles in Place
Brainstorming
Nominal Group Technique (fig 8.4)
Quality Circles
Suggestion Boxes
Walking & Talking
Suggestion Systems - 1
Managements Role:
Establishing Policy
Setting Up the System
Promoting the Suggestion System
Evaluating & Implementing suggestions
Rewarding employees
Suggestion Systems - 2
Evaluating Suggestions
Though Employees make suggestions, final analysis is still
to be made by manager.
Thus, Establish a formal rating system for evaluating
suggestion systems.
Thinking Critically
Building Consensus
Empowerment
Avoiding Traps:
Defining Power as Discretion & Self- Reliance
Failing to Properly Define Empowerment for Managers &
Supervisors
Assuming Employees Have the skills to be Empowered
Getting Impatient Making the Transition from
Traditional Approach
Beyond Empowerment
Leadership Defined
Leadership is the ability to inspire people to make
a total, willing and voluntary commitment to
accomplish or exceeding organizational goals.
Leaders must
Overcome resistance to change
Broker the needs of Constituency groups
Establish an ethical framework
Characteristics
Balanced Commitment
Positive Role Model
Good Communication Skills
Persuasiveness
Leadership
Motivation & Inspiration:
Understanding Individual
Needs
Understanding Individual
Beliefs
Leadership Styles:
In a total Quality setting, the
most appropriate style might
be called participative
leadership taken to a higher
level
Leadership Characteristics
Sense of Purpose, Self-Discipline, Honesty, Credibility,
Commonsense, Stamina, Commitment, Steadfastness.
Pitfalls
Trying to be a buddy, Having an Intimate relationship
with an employee, Trying to keep the same when
supervising former peers.
Leadership Vs Management
Leadership & Management are two distinctive and
Complementary systems of action.
Management
Leadership
Develops capacity to
Ensures accomplishment
Complexity
change
Change
Employees & Mangers on Change
Difficulty in Change Different perceptions of
employees & managers.
Hence, proper atmosphere should be created to
accommodate change.
Overview of
Team Building & Teamwork - 1
What is a Team?
A team is a group of people with a common, collective
goal.
Overview of
Team Building & Teamwork - 2
Types of Teams
Department Improvement Team
Process Improvement Team
Task Force
How to be a Member?
Gain Entry, Be Clear on the Teams mission, Be well
prepared and participate, Stay in Touch.
Overview of
Team Building & Teamwork - 3
How to be a Leader?
Be clear on the teams mission
Identify success criteria
Be action centered
Establish the ground rules
Share Information
Cultivate Team Unity
Coaches are
facilitators of team development and continually
improved performance.
Effective Communication
Defnition of Communication
Effective Communication
Effective Communication means that the message
is received ,understood and acted on in the
desired manner. It is higher order of
communication.
Defnition of Listening
Overview of Education,
Training & Learning - 1
Training is
In house training
External Training or a combination of both.
Overview of Education,
Training & Learning - 1
Types of training by Industry:
Customer Education
Sales Skills
Employee relations etc.,
Providing Training
Strategies for maximizing training resources:
Build in Quality from the start
Design Small
Think Creatively
Shop around
Preview & Customize
Internal Approaches
External Approaches
Partnership Approaches
Evaluating Training
Evaluating Training begins with a clear statement
of purpose.
To know where training has improved performance,
managers need to know three things:
Was the training provided valid?
Did the Employees learn?
Has the learning made a difference?
Managers as Trainees:
Quality basics
Strategic Quality management
Quality Planning
Quality Improvement
Quality Control
Workforce Literacy
Impact of Illiteracy on Industry:
Difficulty in filling high-skill jobs, lower levels of
productivity, higher levels of waste etc.,
Improving Learning
Teaching Study Skills
Make a schedule and stick to it
Have a special place to study
Listen and take notes
Read assertively
Improve test-taking skills
Orientation Training
Recurring errors associated with orientation
training:
Insufficient Information
Too much Information
Conflicting Information
Customer Training
An old adage states
The customer is always right
Ethics Training
Ethical behavior and the rationale for it can be
taught.
Ethics training is becoming increasingly important
As the pressures of succeeding in an intensely
competitive global marketplace grow.
Questions/Queries