Abstract This paper addresses the concept that: "Tenants' empowerment is about attitudes, not structures." This is achieved through investigating the relationship that a tenant can have with their landlord in terms of their connection with the property, and the connection that the tenants can develop with their landlords. Through investigating these issues, it is demonstrated that tenants can achieve a more substantial degree of empowerment through their attitudes rather than their actual physical rights as tenants.
Tags: URBAN STUDIES / HOUSING, tenants rights empowerment
Abstract This paper considers how empowerment and participative decision making improves the decision making process within organizations. It looks at downsizing efforts that empower workers and the benefits to the organization of participative decision making.
From the Paper "In recent years groups have become increasingly important in the American workplace as companies move toward fewer managers, more empowered workers and away from hierarchical organizational structures ..."
Tags: decision making, participative decision making, group decision making, empowerment
Abstract The objective of this paper is to show how employee empowerment affects organizations. Empowerment refers to the act of delegating authority along with the responsibility for accomplishing given tasks. It looks at how it is unreasonable to expect an employee to complete a task successfully unless that employee was given the authority to carry it out and how empowerment gives employees the feeling of belonging, allowing them to feel pride in their work and take ownership of tasks that may otherwise be mundane.
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Personnel Responsibility
Special Cause Variation
Shewhart Control Charts
Control
Negative Impact of Empowerment Breakthrough
Conclusion
Resources
From the Paper "The problems of achieving goals in business arise out of variation. The decrease in sales compared to the previous year, excessive costs when compared to the budget, and deviation of a product from the specified target are a few examples. The variation in a given outcome can come from hundreds if not thousands of causes. However, as "the grandfather of total quality management" Walter Shewhart stated, it will take several lifetimes to study all the causes that affect outcome. But if there is a way to separate the significant causes from the insignificant, it may be a reasonably good start. "
Abstract This paper looks at why the empowerment of nurses will benefit not only the nurses, but the health care industry and what can be done to promote this empowerment. Specifically, the paper looks at the measures and changes that must be made in jobs, organizational styles, and workplace protocols to lead to empowerment.
From the Paper "Exceedingly rapid technological progress has resulted in a change in our human resources and human activities environment. There have of course been changes within the healthcare environment for both licensed and unlicensed providers of care. These changes have required most workers to do more with less and place a greater emphasis on teamwork with independent decision making for each worker involved, no matter what their scope (Barker, 1990). All healthcare delivery systems are seeing dramatic changes in their manning and their organizational ladders. In order for all these changes to be managed effectively without any change in provision of quality healthcare, leaders and managers must understand how these changes and stresses affect workers? attitudes. The issues of leadership style and work related empowerment have become catch words but actually represent very important ideas (Douglas, 1995). That is fundamentally positive, referring to solutions rather than to problems and is dynamic in nature, power is taken over and given away, power is shared. Power is usually associated with a negative connotation ? there is an association with hierarchy, authoritarianism, and generally with the restriction of a person's freedom of action. Empowerment is an abstract concept. It is especially important as personnel resources are not being increased but rather decreased. This represents a change in the delivery of care and will require a significant transition in the nurse-manager's leadership style to help subordinates accept the adjustment in work and their new levels of productivity."
Abstract This paper explains that employee empowerment is defined as a concept by which employees and the groups in which they work feel that they have a voice and influence in decisions that are made by those above them. The author examines organizational structure that support and encourage employee empowerment. The paper stresses that the team approach is an essential element to all leadership application because it allows for the development of perceptual employee empowerment. The author applies systems theory and behaviorism to this personnel management issue.
From the Paper "A team model may be the best ideological structure, as individuals will feel empowered to help the team by streamlining production through their own inside knowledge of the system, how it works and how it can be tweaked to produce better results. Those who have been traditionally seen as middle management will be eliminated, either through leveling or elimination, and this may be the most difficult of the transition, as such individuals may feel ownership to their previous authority, and have a difficult time with the idea or reality of demotion."
Tags: hierarchical, flat, feedback, behaviorism, system
Abstract "Horse-Dealer's Daughter" illustrates the renewed strength that Mabel creates after she had been deprived for a long time of her right to make her own decisions, and be independent from her patriarchal family. Elizabeth of "Odor of Chrysanthemums" also experienced women empowerment at the initial part of the story, but loses this as she realizes that her proud character was the reason why her marriage became unhappy and did not work out until her husband's death. The themes of love and women empowerment are discussed in context with the two short stories by D. H Lawrence, including an analysis of how the character's portrayal illustrates these themes.
From the Paper "A "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" show how Mabel, the protagonist, was illustrated as a woman deprived of a good life and is considered by her brothers and her society as a functional and self-reliant individual. The author's description of Mabel illustrates how she is portrayed by her society: "Mabel had no associates of her own sex" She regularly went to church, she attended to her father. She had suffered badly during the period of poverty. Now, for Mabel, the end had come. She would follow her own way just the same. She would always hold the keys of her own situation.? Lawrence's use of Mabel's character as a decisive and functional female is actually the external appearance of what Mabel wants to display in public; in reality, she is a woman beaten down by the pressures and limited opportunities society and her family had given her. Her family's descent to poverty and the constant reprimanding of her brothers about her made her decide the "keys of her own situation" through committing suicide."
Abstract This paper researches and examines how the teacher empowerment movement over the past 25 years has influenced the public school principal to practice collaborative leadership. The paper contends that the empowerment of teachers not only leads to better pedagogy among teachers but culminates in the motivation of students, which raises achievement among students as well.
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The Roles of Principals
School Reform
Conclusion
From the Paper "The benefits provided to teachers through the teacher empowerment are inclusive of increases in teacher job performance, improved morale of teachers, increased knowledge of subject matter and pedagogy, and finally resulting higher motivation among students as well as higher achievement. As a result, teachers, and ultimately, their students and their schools, could potentially receive the full benefits of teacher empowerment if principals hone their focus on the appropriate leadership behaviors and policies to effectively maximize teacher empowerment (Keiser & Shen, 2000:115). Short and Rinehart (1993) "Teacher empowerment and school climate" p.592 state that, "Teacher empowerment relates to greater organizational effectiveness.""
Abstract The paper suggests a brief analysis of the Microsoft company, in terms of its history, current status, major achievements, mission and vision statement and financial highlights and then a closer look at the Microsoft employee freedom and empowerment. The paper then proposes to identify how training programs contribute to the financial outcome of an organization. Finally, the paper discusses the paper's conclusion that will examine what Microsoft has done to implement training programs and employee empowerment, and most importantly, how these strategies have contributed to Microsoft's ultimate corporate success.
From the Paper "With 89,809 employees in 105 countries and with revenues as high as $60420 billion (Official Website of the Microsoft Corporation, 2008), Microsoft Corporation is the ultimate epitome of corporate success. But is their success somehow related to the human resource strategies linked to employee empowerment and training? To answer this question, several steps must be taken.
"The first one refers to a brief analysis of the company, in terms of history, current status, major achievements, mission and vision statement and financial highlights. To retrieve this information, several sources should be analyzed, such as the official website of the corporation, their annual reports as well as tertiary sources, such as Hoovers, which present the issues from an objective standpoint. For ratios on profitability and managerial capabilities, one could read the data from the Forbes financial analyses."
Abstract This paper looks at the way in which women have achieved empowerment through education as shown through the works of Austen, Bronte and Wollstonecraft. It looks at their personal experiences as well as the experiences of women in their works.
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"It should not surprise us that Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft should in their works emphasize the importance of education to the women of their own generation. Each of these women themselves had personal experience with the ways in which education had widened their own horizons. And each also had knowledge of women who had not received any education and thus had the already circumscribed role allotted to women made even smaller. These three women understood from the measure of their own lives that what freedom existed for women, and what power was available to women, would come through education."
An examination of empowering communities through decentralization and enlisting participation for capacity building for sub-national governance in developing countries.
Abstract This paper explores critically and comprehensively strategies that enhance empowerment of communites within a framework of sub-national governance through some techniques of decentralization and quality participation. Developing countries are the main units of analysis. However, the role of the International Development Community is examined and the discourse is concerned with creating a special legal, economic, social, political, geographic and fiscal space for sub-national groups that act autonomously, though in association with the state, private sector and other factors in society.
From the Paper "Since the 1970s and 1980s, the character and form of public service delivery has extended far beyond provision through central government towards the empowerment of local governments, hence, sub-national groupings involving much decentralization for empowering particularly communities. The idea has been the growing focus on not only, political and economic development, but also, and more importantly, social and human development where it has been recognized that central government alone, within the vortex of globalization cannot promote development in all respects. The United Nations Development programme (1998) has noted that decades of development assistance have countenanced the notion that economic development alone will not bring about equitable and lasting development because there was much focus on the economy, which meant an exclusion of political, social, environmental and cultural factors. As the report noted, ?"in the face of continued and devastating poverty and rapid environmental deterioration, more and more policy-makers are acknowledging that development progress must be people-centered, equitably distributed and environmentally and socially sustainable" (UNDP, ibid, 1998, p. 1). Nevertheless, the implementation, activity and even the concept of sub-national governance have been problematic and have developed a distinct set of formidable concerns. This is so, as some of the very problems found with central governments that propelled the idea and practise of decentralization and empowerment for sub-national groups, in particular communities, have again and have continually resurfaced and in some ways just as and even more troubling. Problems relate in part to information asymmetry, institutional deficiencies, and problems of targeting technical, managerial, professional and otherwise resources in addition to problems of accountability and capacity generally, as some would argue (Turner and Hulme 1997 : World Bank Report, June 2001 )."
This paper reviews and examines several films based on real events and actual educators who have empowered their students, while focusing in particular on "Coach Carter" starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Abstract The writer of this paper details how Hollywood takes the examples of real-life educators to provide them with their plots. This paper discusses several such films in this particular genre, including: "Standby By Me," "Lean on Me," and "Remember the Titans," while focusing on "Coach Carter," starring Samuel L. Jackson. "Coach Carter" is a prime example of how students can be empowered to change their lives for the better. This paper describes the plot of "Coach Carter," in which the coach is shown as a human being and not just a savior. Carter attempts to put down student fisticuffs and fighting by using positive encouragement rather than intimidation to enforce discipline while at the same time inspiring his players to respect one another, as well as respect him as an authority figure. The writer also discusses how films like "Remember the Titans" and "Friday Night Lights" tell the tale of student empowerment through sports.
From the Paper "Of course, films like "Remember the Titans" and "Friday Night Lights" also tell the tale of student empowerment through sports. But these football films are more intent upon showing the dark side of sports, rather than seeing sports as having any potential for becoming tools of empowerment for young people, when in the right hands. The use of football in these films is a tool more for the empowerment of the coaches, fans, and outsiders such as the depressed people of the town rather than students. In contrast, the students of "Coach Carter" are taught to succeed for themselves and to advance their own interests."
Abstract This paper discusses the values of promoting the empowerment of nurses. It argues that, given greater autonomy in decision-making, nurses will feel more professional satisfaction and commitment, leading to higher morale and efficiency in the work place. It also claims that, when nurses are given a higher degree of informal power, the results are observed in greater accountability, productivity, and work effectiveness. Furthermore, this has an impact on collegiality since stronger alliances with peers are established.
From the Paper "The primary moral principle invariably is respect for persons; from that main principle emerge other principles such as autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, fidelity, veracity, and justice (ANA, 2001). Respect for the inherent dignity and worth of every patient is the core principle for nursing practice (ANA, 2001). The ANA's (1995) belief that the person is holistic and possesses an inherent unity, which must be contextually and culturally defined, is correlated with that principle. Autonomy for nurses must be intrinsic and a personal choice; if it is the result of extrinsic influences, autonomy is extremely restricted. Intrinsic autonomy is only possible in nursing environments where staff can exert control. Accountability depends on the degree of autonomy that can be exercised as well as the extent to which nurses are empowered (Laschinger & Wong, 1999)."
Abstract The paper discusses how people need to define their jobs, businesses and even the directions they are taking in life in order to contribute what they can to the growth of human society. The paper explores how empowerment is utilized in the fields of psychology, nursing and education.
From the Paper "Empowerment is a process of unleashing the human potential and enhancing the human ability to effect and maintain societal growth (Rubino 2007). It has gained emphasis in these times of unprecedented change and crises encountered in the face of limited resources. Major transitions in society have produced an upheaval and a feeling of uncertainty. People need to define their jobs, businesses and even the directions they are taking in life. This transition incurs overwhelming change, accompanied by a sense of loss and uncertainty. This is particularly true to those who have not found their place in which to grow and fulfill their perceived role."
Abstract In this article, the writer discusses that self-empowerment, facilitated by the nurse as teacher is the most hopeful model for the treatment of childhood obesity and early onset cases of type II diabetes. The writer maintains that, although clinical outcomes promoting these strategies do not show the conclusive results in mitigating the effects of diabetes, or in reducing patient body mass indexes in the long run as weight-loss surgery, nurses must try to create effective self-directed counseling programs that offer less risky prescriptions than surgery for the young. The writer concludes that nurses today must acknowledge their unique role in treating lifestyle ailments, as well as remember that their clinical practice cannot heal all of society nor completely control an environment that constantly facilitates the patient's predicament.
From the Paper "The current medical literature stresses the need for patient empowerment for diabetics and pre-diabetics of all ages. When the ailment typically occurred in only older adults, insulin therapy was thought to be the first recourse of treatment. However, in younger adults and children the individual has greater power to reverse or mitigate the symptoms of the illness. Today's treatment protocols call for a combination of diet, exercise, and medications when treating diabetics. The aim is to maintain blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible through healthy diet and exercise, although when diet and exercise do not provide adequate control of blood glucose, medications may be added to the treatment plan."
Abstract The paper compares Frances E. W. Harper's poem, "Ethiopia" with Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poem "Ode to Ethiopia" and shows how Harper is yearning for something that is not yet there while Dunbar is seeking to ameliorate what already is. The paper discusses the poems' loaded diction and the allusions to the biblical prophecy that African-Americans will rise. The paper illustrate how Harper and Dunbar's poems glorify and empower African-Americans while looking forward to a new era in which black people will stand tall in the face of adversity.
From the Paper "The term Ethiopianism referes to a literary tradition in which "early black writers and even some of their white allies [embraced] this inspirational Biblical passage: 'Princes shall come out of [Africa}; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God' " (Psalms 68:31; Moses 412). Since the 19th century, many writers have interpreted this "verse as a prophecy that African Americans will rise within society" (Moses 412). Therefore, it is not surprisng that Frances E. W. Harper's "Ethiopia" and Paul Lawrence Dunbar's "Ode to Ethiopia" reflect this biblical prophecy. As Dunbar and Harper wrote, "Yes! Ethiopia shall stretch her bleeding hands abroad," "Go on and up!/ Our souls and eyes/ shall follow thy continous rise." These poems were both written at times when many blacks felt disillusioned by social unrest, poverty, and racism."
