İnsan Kaynaklarının Geliştirilmesi Yönünde Atılan Yeni Bir Adım: İşletmelerde Çalışanların Yetkilendirilmesi (Employee Empowerment)

Modern örgütler daha hızlı ve kaliteli hizmet sunmak, daha verimli çalışmak suretiyle daha yüksek düzeyde kar elde etmek zorunda olduklarından dolayı, bunları örgüte kazandıracak olan yetkilendirme gün geçtikçe daha çok rağbet görmektedir. Yetkilendirmenin bu denli rağbet görmesinin diğer nedeni, yönetsel faaliyetlerde oldukça büyük ve hızlı değişimler yaşanmasından dolayı, yöneticilerin yönetim felsefelerini yeniden değerlendirmek zorunda kalmalarıdır. Yöneticiler çok kompleks durumlarla karşılaşmaları sonucunda geleneksel güç kaynaklarının ve yönetsel tekniklerin yetersiz kaldıklarını görünce, çözüm yolu olarak çalışanlarını yetkilendirmek istemişlerdir. Bunu gerçekleştiren yöneticiler, risk almaktan kaçınmayan, daha esnek, yaratıcı, motive edilmiş ve iş doyumu yüksek çalışanlar profiline ulaşmış olurlar. Çalışanların yetkilendirilmesi terimi yönetim alanında sıkça kullanılmaya başlandığından dolayı, bu çalışmada şu sorulara cevaplar aranmaktadır: Yetkilendirme ile ifade edilmek istenilen nedir? Değişik teorik yaklaşımların konuyla ilgili görüşleri nelerdir? Yetkilendirmenin örgüt ve birey üzerindeki etkileri nelerdir? Örgütlerde uygulanan yetkilendirme türleri nelerdir?. Bu konular incelendikten sonra, sonuç bölümünde, bütün çalışanların benimseyeceği bir yetkilendirme programının örgütlerde nasıl oluşturulacağı konusunda önerilerde bulunulmaktadır.

A New Popular Intiative on the Direction of Human Resource Development: Employee Empowerment

A New Popular Initiative on the Direction of Human Resource Development: Employee Empowerment As modern organizations must be faster, provide the highest quality service, be more efficient, and ultimately more profitable, empowerment has emerged as an increasingly popular initiative. The other reason of such popularity of empowerment is that managerial work is undergoing such massive and rapid change that many managers are re-assessing their management style. Faced with an extraordinary level of complexity, they realised that traditional sources of power erode and the old managerial tools lose their magic. Therefore, managers now want to empower their workforce. What they will receive in return are employees who are less risk-aversive, more flexible, more creative and innovative, and more motivated and satisfied. As "employee empowerment" as a term is frequently used in management circles, in this study it is attempted to find answers for the following questions: What is employee empowerment? What do the various theoretical voices have to say about the concept? What are the effects of empowerment on organizations and individuals? What are the types of empowerment established in organizations? In the conclusion section, the paper suggests how empowerment can be introduced into organizations in such a manner that it is embraced by the whole workforce.

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