Employee Empowerment

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the importance of creating a feeling of employee empowerment within an organization. It explains the flat organization model and provides a case study analysis of a small firm who transitioned their employees from a hierarchical organizational style to a flat organizational style. The paper discusses the application of these changes within the organization.

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"Though the transition to flat organization may benefit most organization, it is still a transitional situation that requires special understanding of employee empowerment as well as interactions. Smaller firms of coarse will find this transition easier while larger firms may need to create quasi flat systems that better serve multi-factorial production systems and require the system to work together in a streamlines fashion, without one area of production causing unintended problems for another. Employee empowerment is clearly one of the biggest reasons why employees express happiness and comfort within a system, and a flat organizational model may be the right way to create such empowerment, as long as the transition is done effectively and communicated well to all levels."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Foss, N. J. (2005). Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Sanchez, R., & Heene, A. (1997). Managing for an Uncertain Future: A Systems View of Strategic Organizational Change. International Studies of Management & Organization, 27(2), 21.

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