...1 – Introduction 1.1 The need to Enhance Performance The most imperative holdings any organization posses, will be its "individuals". At the point when these individuals will be despondent, unmotivated, or feel separated from the general workings in their organization, the whole association experiences low benefit, low assurance, and high worker turn over. In request to face the challenges and intensity in the business world, numerous organisations have made strides to expand adequacy of the employees and thus the benefit. The work execution will be really the item of an employee's motivation and capability. The capacity and aptitudes will be in this way procured through preparing, while on the work execution will be additionally obliged (Schiller, 1996). Late studies have demonstrated, that the fulfilled employees tend to be more effective, inventive, and devoted to their employees (Syptak, M.david, and Ulmer, 1996). 1.2 Motivation is the key to Performance Motivation is the way to employee execution. Profoundly energetic employees are considered to be genuine holdings for any organisation. When inspired, they fundamentally tend to be more effective, vigorous, and will be exceptionally much enthusiastic to take an extra obligation (David, 2005). At the end of the day, a spurred employee is essentially a profitable representative, and accordingly gainful workers can do ponders...
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...THE EFFECTS OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN KENYA: A SURVEY OF MERU COUNTY A Research Project Submitted to the School of Human Resource Development in Partial Fulfillment for the Award of the Degree of Executive Master Of Business Administration of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology JULY 2013 CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background information Several studies show that access to microfinance contributes to poverty reduction, particularly for women participants, and to overall poverty reduction at the village level. It also contributes to women empowerment, including higher levels of mobility, political participation and decision making. According to the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign 2001 Report, 14.2 million of the world’s poorest women now have access to financial services through specialized microfinance institutions (MFIs), banks, NGOs, and other nonbank financial institutions. These women account nearly 74 percent of the 19.3 million of the world’s poorest people now being served by microfinance institutions. Most of these women have access to credit to invest in businesses that they own and operate themselves. Microfinance programs have been deemed to have the potential to transform power relations and empower the poor—both men and women. As a consequence, microfinance has become a central component of many donor agencies’ and national...
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...Empowerment is a concept we all have heard at one time or another it is utilized in numerous professions and specialties. Analysis of this concept will further understanding of empowerment for nursing professionals in areas from research, theory development or practice. Exploring the attributes, consequences, implications and model cases of empowerment can assist the nursing professional in utilizing empowerment to its fullest potential. Within the scope of nursing, empowerment can be seen not purely as how it relates to the client, or the nurse but also how it relates to both the client and the nurse (Rodwell 1996). The Walker-Avant method was used to analyze this concept, as it was the most commonly seen in nursing literature (McEwen & Willis, 2007). Aim This paper’s aim is to clarify the concept of empowerment and its implications for the nursing profession, by exploring how it pertains to nursing as well as other disciplines, its essential attributes, antecedents, consequences and empirical referents. Definition What is empowerment, and what does it mean? American Heritage dictionary defines empowerment as “To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority” or “To equip or supply with an ability; enable”. Dictionary.com defines it as “to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means” or “to enable or permit”. Synonyms for empower include capacitate, entrust, permit and privilege according to Rogets Thesaurus. Understanding...
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...Technology. Before I begin my speech I would like to respect and give thanks to all of you. Improving the quality of the nation must be adopted and especially through education. Education is a long process, which ceaselessly to achieve one objective and open to new ideas and new concepts. That is the meaning of education so that one day the results of the education that will foster a new culture of human intelligence. During the intelligent human, it has the wisdom and virtue in his soul. Only after that, he was able to master science and technology. New culture that is the counter-culture which is then entered into the order of a society (culture) alternatives to be chosen by this nation. Everything is well organized through education, education that can educate, able to cultivate virtuous and wise soul, and master of science and technology. That's the future that will transform the nation into a new Philippines. This would seem to be, for education in Philippines. Not to mention the shortage of teaching staff resolved the problem, the problem of inadequate educational facilities come up, and following the high cost of education issues. We still feel as a nation that remains in many ways compared to other nations. Therefore, the only way for the nation is to improve education in order to make an intelligent nation through comprehensive national education system and planned. But to go in that direction, the road taken very long and difficult because the issue of education is...
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...RehabCare to the concept of empowerment, and how does it fit into the implementation of the PCP process in RehabCare, Carlow? ➢ To what extent does PCP at RehabCare contribute to the underlying goal of greater social inclusion? CONTENTS TITLE PAGE……………………………………… P 1 CONTENTS PAGE………………………………... P2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……………………….. P3 INTRODUCTION………………………………….. P4 LITERATURE REVIEW………………………….. P5 METHODOLOGY…………………………………. P11 FINDINGS………………………………………….. P13 ANALYSIS…………………………………………. P16 CONCLUSION…………………………………….. P18 BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………….. P20 APPENDIX (Interview Transcript)……………….. P22 THE END……………………………………………. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to take this opportunity to thank the management at RehabCare in Carlow, for being so helpful and informative. I would also like to thank the lecturer of this course, Ruth Casey, for all of her input and advice. Introduction Hereafter, I will discuss my participation in this endeavour in the third person, as the “researcher”. The researcher’s choice was to conduct a study of RehabCare in Carlow; and through the process of investigation in this organisation, an attempt was made to answer one main question, and two related sub-questions. Main Question: • How successful is RehabCare in Carlow with their Person Centred Planning (PCP) approach to client care? Two sub-questions: • What is the attitude of RehabCare to the concept of empowerment, and how does it fit...
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...Power and Empowerment Within a business, organizing is essential to keep day-to-day activities afloat and regular business function in motion. Therefore, it is essential for leadership to understand the power behind responsibility, power and empowerment. This paper will define and provide examples of responsibility, power and empowerment. These concepts, in relation to a supervisor’s role, create a variety of opportunities for planning and delegation. Defining Responsibility, Power and Empowerment The word responsibility creates numerous different reactions from positive to negative. Byars and Rue (2010) defines responsibility as “accountability for reaching objectives, using resources properly and adhering to organizational policy.” An example of a supervisor showing responsibility would be taking on a task to be accomplished by a certain period of time. The supervisor will then delegate responsibilities, oversee progress and ensure completion of said task. Power is a misconceived concept that is used for both good and bad. According to Dictionary.com LLC (2011), power is “the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy” (Power, para. 4). Leaders within an organization are given power in order to complete necessary tasks. Leaders must learn to use this power to motivate others in order to allocate work in order to achieve the overall goal of the organization. An example of power for a leader within an organization would be making a choice to change...
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...who just started her job as a freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School. She is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino and Asian gang members who had excessive hate for the new teacher, Erin Gruwell. The most significant themes in The Freedom Writers is tolerance, journal writing/empowerment, determination and last but not least is freedom. Erin Gruwell, the teacher starts on her first day at Woodrow Wilson High School. She is unprepared for the nature of her classroom because the students live by their generations history of strict rules and rivalries amongst other “groups.” Most of the students in her classroom are in gangs and almost everybody knows somebody that has been killed by gang violence. Once she steps in the class, Gruwell quickly learned that her students had more to worry about than homework; her students went home to gunfire, gangs, drugs, and a host of other difficult situations. Gruwell did not know what she was getting into. The students was convinced that they didn’t have nothing in common, or that they could learn from a white teacher because she never experience what they previously and currently was going through at the time such as violence and discrimination which was part of their everyday lives. Later Erin tries her best to connect with her students by talking their language and by referring to cultural artifacts they are familiar with but as she does it, they still manage to judge her because the students felt like...
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...involvement, tutoring, conflict resolution, family building and love. These teachings have an aim of helping the youth in dealing with the past and current challenges that they go through. In addition, the organization also endeavours to endow the youth with hints that will help in improving their self-esteem, conflict resolution techniques and stress management. Such empowerment is vital in preparation for their future lives. The management structure of this organization includes subsystems that are interrelated in their operations to produce resourcefully effective outputs and results. In terms of planning, Life Skills Center for Youth embraces the strategic planning model to ensure that it realizes its mission and vision for the youth in the community. Youth empowerment involves understanding the dynamic nature of the society and the ever-changing challenges in relation to complexity. The management of this organization possess adequate skills and experiences that are essential in the consideration and the selections and program modules and activities. The choices at this stage are those that are best placed to sufficiently tackle identified problems that the youth in the particular areas of interests are facing. Through an assessment of factors necessary in the implementation of any youth empowerment program, the organization appropriately predicts the possible social, economic, political and legal consequences and their ability to embrace them (Lewis, Packard & Lewis,...
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...Human development is like approach, which is define conditions of human life. Human development means not like that only growth of economic expansion, its growth in opportunities in every field. Development of kind which allows people their respective choices. There are two dimensions of sketch of human development. First dimension is directly enhancing of human abilities, and other is creating conditions for human development. Directly enhancing of human abilities included long and healthy life, knowledge, and decent standard of living. Creating conditions for human development included like participation in political and community life, environment sustainability, human security and rights, gender equality. Human development is concept of totally development of the people. Human life should be based upon their choices, not insisting that they make use of them. It is true that no one can guarantees human happiness, and the choices people make are their own concern. According to the human development it’s not only the economic growth. Economic growth is focuses only expansion of income only while the human development focuses to enlargement of all the areas of human choices as to what should be an ideal way to lead and drive choices. Dr. Mahbub Ul Haq was renowned theorist, economist,...
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...American InterContinental University Dr. Miedzianowski Doris Miller May 18, 2014 The Plan to Success Management for an organization is a key factor when it comes to business flowing smoothly. Employees are hired with the organizations standards taking into consideration, and the vision, mission, and service strategy are applied through direction and motivation. Management performance is a major step towards success. Management performance is the backbone of Miller’s Women Health Care Center when it comes to executing the action plan of providing motivation, empowerment, training, and co production with patients and families through the skills of the employees. The two characteristics motivation and empowerment are displayed through planning work, setting expectation, continually monitoring performance, developing the capacity to perform, periodically rating performance in a summary fashion, and rewarding good performance (performance management, 2014). Training and co production are both provided for employees on a monthly bases on how to provide good customer service, on how to interact with patients and families giving them some sense of choice in their health, and on how to remain professional at all times. Miller’s Women Health Care Center realize that health care needs the community just as much as the community needs health care. When it comes to the hiring process for the Miller’s health center the objective is to hire employees that are passionate, experienced, and...
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...Introduction: Shareholder empowerment in Malaysia Presently, Shareholders of public companies in Malaysia have limited power in making corporate decision. The precise scope of the powers of each organ is defined by the company’s articles of association, general principles of company law and the Companies Act 1965. Directors usually have the power to manage the business of the company, with the members being entitled to vote only on limited matters expressly reserved to them by the articles of association or the Companies Act 1965. Although they are granted the rights to make decision on the management board and the approval rights in passing directors’ proposals, some shareholders find it inadequate as the current approval rights is a fairly weak tool in controlling agency problem. With wide and in-depth coverage of ongoing corporate tussles, shareholder awareness has improved to the point that shareholders now want to hold management accountable to proper corporate governance. Hence, in this essay, the issue of whether Malaysia should encourage shareholder empowerment to improve corporate governance in companies and thereby attract more foreign direct investment is discussed. To support my arguments three main decision-making power; rules-of the-game, game-ending and scaling-down; as well as the approval rights and proposal rights are discussed. Definition of Shareholder empowerment Shareholder empowerment means the increasing rights given to shareholder to participate...
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...that will play a part in these areas. Throughout this paper we will discuss personal, interpersonal, and political empowerment, macro systems, individual involvement with the different social systems, and poverty. According to Lippincott and Wilkins, Inc. (2007), “The term empowerment has different meanings in different sociocultural and political contexts. Broadly speaking, empowerment refers to the expansion of assets and capabilities of poor people to participate in, negotiate with, influence, control, and hold accountable institutions that affect people’s lives.” (p. 120). With there being so many different definition’s and understandings of empowerment, we are only going to review three areas, personal, interpersonal, and political empowerment. Personal empowerment is something we all have experienced at a few different times in our lives. This is when an individual decides to make a positive improvement in their lives or within their community or neighborhood. They stand up for what they believe is right and worth fixing or fighting for, maybe not just for themselves, but for others. At an intimate level we may decide to change how we show affection, compromise, and our understanding towards situations with our loved one. We set goals for ourselves and do what is necessary to make improvements in order to reach those goals. An example of personal empowerment is when a mother and wife sees there is tension and negativity in her house hold in regards to her husband. Her...
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...1. Definition Empowerment is creating a work environment in which people are productive, contributing and happy. For example, in the workplace, you need lots of signatures before getting approval to make a change. Is that employee empowerment? NO Employee empowerment is -‐ Trust them and give them the authority to stand on their own two feet -‐ Help the employees to discover their unique potential -‐ Sharing your leadership vision, goals and direction BUT Employee empowerment doesn’t mean that -‐ Throwing out the rules -‐ Bypassing everyone who says No The reason will be presented on Disadvantage part. 2. How to enhance the empowerment After understanding the definition, I would like to move to the first question HOW CAN YOU EMPOWER YOUR EMPLOYEES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONeeBPWaXm0 Based on the clip, we can realize that the easy way...
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...NGO Promoted Microcredit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh Introduction: Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in rural Bangladesh are reaching out to poor women with collateral-free credit programs aimed at both alleviating poverty and increasing women's status. The present study investigated the hypothesis that participation in credit-related activities by NGO credit members leads to greater empowerment of credit members compared to nonmembers. Objectives: To measure the status of empowerment of rural women (both members and non members of the micro-credit organization) in the selected areas To ascertain the factors related to empowerment of women and To assess the role of the micro-credit organizations in empowering rural women in Bangladesh The main objective in this paper was to determine the important factors that contribute to women’s economic success in microcredit programs Women Empowerment: Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities. empowerment of women, also called gender empowerment, has become a significant topic of discussion in regards to development and economics. Entire nations, businesses, communities, and groups can benefit from the implementation of programs and policies that adopt the notion of women empowerment.[1] Empowerment is one of the main procedural concerns when addressing...
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...Papers Series 2006 Vol. 3, No. 3, 210-231 © 2006 Eastern Academy of Management ISSN 1541-6518 www.omj-online.org Effective Empowerment in Organizations GARY A. YUKL University at Albany WENDY S. BECKER University at Albany Psychological empowerment is the perception that workers can help determine their own work roles, accomplish meaningful work, and influence important decisions. Empowerment has been studied from different perspectives, including employee perceptions, leadership behaviors, and management programs. Despite positive rhetoric, programs designed to increase empowerment seldom achieve the benefits promised. Inconclusive and seemingly contradictory outcomes stem from the fact that few companies give employees significant control and access to management information. A half century of research suggests that empowerment strategies can offer real benefits. We outline facilitating conditions for effective empowerment, including characteristics of organizations, leaders, employees, and the work itself. Keywords: Empowerment, Leadership, Teams, Power Sharing Effective Empowerment in Organizations Psychological empowerment in organizations is the perception by members that they have the opportunity to help determine work roles, accomplish meaningful work, and influence important decisions. Over the past several decades an interest in empowerment can be seen in many subject areas within psychology and management, including motivation, leadership, group processes, decision...
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