Benefits of Empowerment

Numerous positive behaviors may be observed among the members of empowered teams.They often:

1-Focus to satisfy the organization's purpose such as satisfying the customer and achieving financial objectives rather than trying to satisfy the supervisors.They talk about customer and business needs and the team's performance toward meeting those needs.They will question management when reasons for objectives are not clear.They want to know the why as well as the what.They will not afraid to question or offer suggestions to management because they work for the interests of the business and their customers.

2-Behave more as owners of the organization.Often employees do task which are not in the job description.They eagerly monitor performance indicators because doing so make them achieve their target and aims.Experienced member teach new employee proactively by sharing their ideas and suggestions to ensure everybody give their full strength to achieve team performance. Behaviors of this sort are evidence that team members feel responsible for the success of the organization,and prefer to take responsibility rather than abdicating that responsibility to the boss.

3-More Entrepreneurial and innovative.If they see a problem,they will energetically try to solve it.They freely seek to implement their ideas,and are willing to try new techniques which may yield improvements.Members are often observed constructively building on ideas from each other in search of solutions to problems.

4-Communicate well within the team as well as outside the team.Open communications are key in all of the above examples.