Arth prabandh: A Journal of Economics and Management
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 4

Identifying the effective factors on empowering the employees of defense industries organization and analyzing emplopees’ empowerment gap

  • Author:
  • Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Maryam Bahmanpour
  • Total Page Count: 21
  • Page Number: 21 to 41

*Associate Professor, Department of Management, Payame Noor University

**Graduate Student of MBA, Payame Noor University, Damavand

Online published on 12 May, 2015.

Abstract

The traditional motivation methods were suitable for those organizations which were in need of employees’ hand work, however because of the dynamic and complexity of current competitive environment, organizations requirement is increased for attitude and creativity force of employees. Therefore identifying new methods of motivation in employees with aim of maintaining and enforcing the competitive dominance is a necessity. Current research focuses on analyzing effective factors on employees’ empowering and it introduces some solutions to improve this empowerment in defense industries organization. In turn, besides describing the solutions, the effective factors and dimensions, different empowerment ways will also be investigated. In this research authority submission, group making, independency, providing information and cooperative management in decision making will be assessed as the main empowerment methods which meanwhile, research results confirm what is stated above. On one hand, by performing gap analysis on these aspects, we analyze their status on concerned organization, more carefully. Finally, by utilizing achieved results some suggestions are made toward empowering the employees.

Keywords

Empowerment, authority submission, Cooperative management, Suggestions system