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Power shift: creating an empowered workforce

P Muller-Smith1

  • 1Department of Education, Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA.

Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing : Official Journal of the American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses
|November 5, 1998
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Empowering staff requires managers to first understand and potentially shift their own power dynamics. This personal insight is crucial for fostering accountability and enabling teams to achieve more with less.

Area of Science:

  • Management Science
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Leadership Studies

Background:

  • Achieving organizational efficiency often necessitates empowering staff for accountability.
  • Staff resistance to empowerment is common, with a tendency to defer responsibility to management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the critical role of managerial self-awareness in successful staff empowerment.
  • To identify the necessary steps for managers to create an environment conducive to empowerment.

Main Methods:

  • The study emphasizes a qualitative, introspective approach for managers.
  • It involves self-examination of personal power styles and their impact on team dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Managerial resistance to empowerment often stems from their own power dynamics.

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  • A shift in managerial power style is a prerequisite for effective staff empowerment.

    • Conclusions:

    • Successful staff empowerment hinges on managers first understanding and adapting their own use of power.
    • Personal power transformation by managers is essential to cultivate an empowered workforce and improve organizational outcomes.