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- Title
Emerging Perspectives in Organizational Behavior, Empowerment and Organizational Climate.
- Authors
Ehiobuche, Chris; Middelstaedt, Fred
- Abstract
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. Tim O'Reilly Today's leadership faces challenges including but not limited to development and implementation of strategic thinking, adaptive changes in the face of formidable resistance, fostering entrepreneurial spirit and creative behavior despite all odds in constructing and leading effective teams in an environment where the natural tendency is to be conflictive with each other and engage in back stabbing. Being able to foster organizational excellence, innovation and creativity, without bureaucratic politics or dysfunctional power conflicts and machiavellism are what the principles of empowerment are all about. This paper provides an opportunity to think differently about power, politics and organizational behavior issues and problems. It discusses the idea of power and politics within an organization in an effort to better explain organizational behavior. The paper discusses the concept and application of empowerment, including common traits and pitfalls. As the trend in many organizations the world over is towards empowering employees, understanding how it can work and when it might not is critical for managers thinking of implementing this in their company. 89 graduate students and managers sampled in this research allowed the authors to identify a number of variations that empowerment can take, and a rubric was created to understand how each operates.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; INSTITUTIONAL environment; INNOVATIONS in business; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; OPEN source intelligence; INNOVATION adoption
- Publication
Leadership & Organizational Management Journal, 2011, Vol 2011, Issue 4, p10
- ISSN
2152-8675
- Publication type
Article