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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

2 Comments so far kavitha on April 27th, 2010 Empowerment could also be used to boost employee engagement. This concept helps maximizing employee potential by encouraging trust through transparency, decentralizing decision-making and inverting the organizational hierarchy. Empowerment also fosters an environment of trust.

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Happiness and Hierarchies

LDRLB

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. But can this cross over into the workplace? One Entrepreneur, Tony Hsieh is betting on it. This begs the larger questions: can you design happiness?

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How Saying Less Can Empower Others to Say More

Skip Prichard

In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, I began to have trouble speaking. Some might worry that this decentralized approach could lead to a lack of focus or systems discipline, but in my case, just the opposite occurred. People support what they help to create.

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4 Lessons from the Toyota Crisis

Leading Blog

Toyota Under Fire deals with not only the massive recall of 2009-2010, but also Toyota’s response to the oil crisis and recession. And there is a balance to strike balance between centralized and decentralized, local and global that is not easy. Toyota’s response has not been typical, but it does follow the Toyota Way.

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Happiness and Hierarchies

LDRLB

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. But can this cross over into the workplace? One Entrepreneur, Tony Hsieh is betting on it. Empowerment, or perceived progress?

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobson

Weak leaders and unhealthy organizations fear decentralized power and intellectually empowered small-unit leaders because they''re difficult to "control." Since, 2010, Team Rubicon has been instrumental in over 50 missions ranging from South Sudan and Haiti, to Joplin, Missouri and Hurricane Sandy.

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Class-Action Lawsuits: Not The Answer for Workplace Gender Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

That practice is supposedly a central policy of decentralized decision-making, in other words, that the company has decided to leave the substance of pay and promotion decisions to individual managers. 2d , 2010 U.S. See, e.g. EEOC v. Bloomberg, F. LEXIS 80113 (S.D.N.Y., Whether the courts will see it that way remains to be seen.

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