EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT

Participatory management is a method in which the employees are involved in every function of management. They are empowered. Employees are made involved in management by making owner, giving autonomy and providing change to take participation in decision making process. This increase their dignity and self actualization. As a result, they get motivated to work. To involve the employees in management is an important source of motivation. This increases productivity of the organization, commitment of employees, internal motivation and the employees become ready to accept responsibility and accountability. There are two techniques to encourage and empower the employees.








  1. Quality of working life:
Quality of working life is a technique to motivate employees to work. QWl indicates the relationship of quality between total work environment and the employees. If the quality of working life of employees is good, they become satisfied and ardworking or get motivated to work. They become successful to perform challenging work.Sufficient and reasonable remuneration, healthy and safety environment to give personal identity, opportunity for persona development and security, opportunity for human competence development etc. are as a whole the working environment. They are called quality working life.If the QWl is good the employees become satisfied. So the management should improve this environment. For this the mechanism such as share ownership, flexible working hour, quality control team etc should be organized and activated.
  • Share ownweship:
The employee can be involved in mangement bu providing share ownership. Nowdays most of the companies make the employees owners bu distributing shares to them. Doing so the employees tink the organization to be teir own, they become dedicated to the organization and get opportunity to take part in decision making process.
  • Flexible working time:
Two types of working table can be used. The first fixed time working and second flexible working time.The working time from 9 am to 4 pm is called fix time working. Most of the countries of the world use tis type of time. But using this working time, employees cannot get time to pay electricity tarrif, children's fee to school, post office to drop the letters, draw money from bamk etc. So the employees should be given the facility to reach office earlier in morning and leave it before office time or reach late in the morning and work there even after the office time or use the long break for such private work and work in the office up to late eening. If such facility is given they need to take leave and can do their private work.
  • Quality circle:
The team formed to solve production problems and improve quality of goods is called quality circle(QC). QC is a small group of employees. QC is formed involving experienced and specialist employees. Such circle tries to decrease cost price, increace quality of goods.
2.     Self managed team:
The tea formed without formal supervision is called self managed team. The duties , authorities and responsibility of the members of such organization are not formally defined. The leadership of such team is held on the basis of personal charisma. The menber of the team work with disciline and become goal oriented. They have high morale. They utilize the freedom to use to show their ability. Self managed team is a group of 10 to 15 employees. They have responsibility of planning and scheduling of work, task assignment to members, taking action to solve problems, decision making about operation and collective control over performance. The characteristics of such team are.
  • The team becomes responsibility for the whole work.
  • The member becomes gifted with various qualities and skills.
  • The authority to determine working procedure, making work routine, handing over work etc lies with such team.
  • The performance of the team is based on remuneration and feedback.

Hence, participative management brings about increased motivation as employee become able to Identify more clearly with the organization, develop greater team spirit, and most importantly, work harder to achieve the goals they have helped to establish .This type of participation, also empowers employees through two mechanism- QWL and self managed work teams. These two concepts are the central features of participative management and employee motivation.

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