How Employee Empowerment affect IT Industry?

What is Employee Empowerment?

 (Anon., 2018)

“Employee empowerment is giving employees a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision-making regarding their specific organizational tasks. It allows decisions to be made at the lower levels of an organization where employees have a unique view of the issues and problems facing the organization at a certain level.” (Grimsley, 2018)

How it affects on an IT organization?

In the IT industry, all the employees are well educated and talented, where most of the value the power of decision making as well as better integrity. When the employees are lack of these abilities, they eventually leave the company and it will make significant impacts on the organization. However, there are both advantages and disadvantages to this.

Advantages

1. Improve the responsiveness towards the issues and problems that an organization is facing (Toporek, 2016)
2. Increase productivity
3. Improve employee commitment towards achieving the organizations’ goal since employees can take some degree of responsibility in the decision made towards goal achievement (Wroblewski, 2019)

Disadvantages

1. “While the handing down of responsibility promises to improve speed, agility and productivity, a concern is that decisions are now being made by less experienced and less expert personnel. This can increase the number of mistakes made and put reputation at risk” (Williams, 2019)
2. Lack of coordination can occur, for example, in an IT organization coordination and teamwork, is a must, if someone is trying to make the decision themselves it will lead to failing a whole project. In order to achieve this, proper training is a must.
3. The professional relationship may blur since the empowerment will change the hierarchical management structure to a flattered one.

Taking all these pros and cons into account, let's see how this affects an IT organization? IT organization depends on the projects or a relevant product. Teamwork and product coordination is a must to meet the deadline successfully. Hence, enhancing the empowerment of employees will improve the responsiveness, productivity and commitment to achieve the goals of the project.

In my organization, there is a considerable power of autonomy is given to each and every employee and the management always consider even the temporary employees when making decisions. Even though, the company maintained a flattered managerial structure relationship between these two groups is not affected.

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