EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT
Scenario Information
An American Internet Technology company has merged with a Canadian Social Media company. Because of this merger, performance is not as optimum as the executives would have hoped; morale is low, and stress is up. The new company has decided to hire you as an Organizational Development consultant. They have tasked you with finding out the issues and what they should do next to get back on track.
Instructions
You recently observed the company and the interactions, communications, and stress of its employees. As part of this process as an OD consultant, you are to prepare a presentation on what you learned to incorporate into the company’s change plan; this can be a narrated PowerPoint, Prezi, or any presentation tool.
Note: You need to record yourself giving the presentation; you will need your voiceover (audio) with the PowerPoint, Prezi, etc. Make sure you address the following points in your presentation as you will be giving it to the executive team:
- Explain employee empowerment and its effect on the success of the company.
- Discuss the different techniques and interventions of employee empowerment.
- Discuss what makes interpersonal communication a necessary factor for organizational effectiveness.
- Explain workplace stress and its impact on productivity and morale.
- Conclude your presentation with your recommendation of employee empowerment intervention, improving interpersonal communication, and how to manage workplace stress.
Please add notes in a separate page that I can use to read aloud. Instructor said they should be up to 45 seconds for each slide (no less than 100 words for the footnotes)
Answer preview
Employee empowerment is the process of giving employees a degree of independence in their operations and their activities. The main thing that is considered is giving of these individuals the right to make their own decisions about their actions. It allows them to work effectively and to guarantee long term. It allows employees to make their own choices and changes to the system when necessary (Appelbaum, Karasek, Lapointe & Quelch, 2015). The process goes a long way in decentralizing the posers that managers have in the day to day operations of the company as a whole. It is instrumental in the long term…
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