Zuvarashe Judith Mushipe

Employee Empowerment as a Coping Strategy in a Changing Environment

A Case Study of the Food Processing Industry in Zimbabwe

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Produktbeschreibung

The study's main objective is to establish the influence of empowerment on the outcomes of organizations. It is based on the thesis that organizations as open systems operate in a changing environment where they are to survive in the coming decades. Empowerment is the strategy recommended in this study that can be implemented with least resistance. Empowerment is conceptualized to mean employee participation in decision-making, information sharing and power sharing. Such participation should result in positive organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction , organizational commitment and productivity. Studies carried out in the Western and European countries have shown a causal relation between empowerment and job satisfaction, organizational commitment and productivity. Employee participation in the Zimbabwean environment is discussed under the dichotomy of economic empowerment that includes policies of indigenization and employee share ownership plans; and workplace democracythat is facilitated by the Labour Act and its provisions such as the Workers' Committee, Works' Council and collective bargaining among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9783844305159
• ISBN-10: 3844305157
• Artikelnr.: 33074102

Autorenporträt

Dr Zuvarashe Judith Mushipe has a PhD Business Management from the University of Zimbabwe a Licentiate degree from Umea School of Business and Economics in Sweden an MBA and BBA degree from North Carolina Central University Dr Mushipe is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Professional Studies at ST Thomas University Miami Florida