psychological empowerment and public services innovation; with emphasise employee engagement

Harnessing Employee Engagement in UK Public Services

Impact of Psychological Empowerment on Employee Performance - A Conceptual Review

Despite decades of extensive research by academicians and rigorous exercises of management practitioners, “Empowerment” construction is incomplete and still facing skepticism. Many leading service companies have dropped the thought of empowerment from their management practices list and some abandoned the idea completely, others still successfully working on this approach into a balanced way of...

Understanding Employee Engagement in Un-Official Projects - A Conceptual Model Based On Psychological Empowerment and Constructive Deviance

Un-official projects resulting from unsanctioned, bottom-up employee initiatives is a phenomenon that can cause serious resource planning problems in IT project portfolio management, such as when resources thought to be available have actually been spent on projects conducted under the radar. At the same time, such project may also give rise to innovative ideas, solutions and software of potent...

Influence of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards on Employee Engagement (Empirical Study in Public Sector of Uganda)

Considerable attention has been given to the identification of key forms of reward and its linkage to employee engagement. For this purpose following study aims to uncover the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards on employee engagement in the public sector of Uganda. A sample of 184 public sector employees was randomly selected and taken from Gulu district. A quantita...

Implementing Employee Empowerment

otal quality management (TQM) is built on the four cornerstones of customer focus, continuous process improvement, management leadership, and employee empowerment. Although empowerment is often the most difficult of the four concepts to implement effectively, organizations that have been successful in empowering their employees invariably see bottomline improvements. Empowerment has been define...

Employee engagement

IES’s research has defined engagement, created an engagement measure and provided an engagement diagnostic tool. We have established that our measure and diagnostic tool work well in a variety of settings and sectors, and identified the major challenges that must be faced by organisations wishing to reap the benefits of high engagement levels. Raising engagement levels, and maintaining them, ta...