Creating Opportunities for Empowerment
Below is a link to a visual representation as to how various strategies overlap to create empowerment in health care organizations. It is important to consider the strategies used within the context, culture and needs of the organization. Combinations of the various strategies may result in different degrees of empowerment.
Please Click on this link to view empowerment strategies
Please Click on this link to view empowerment strategies
Top Ten Work Environment Drivers of Engagement
[ranked in order of influence (Lowe, 2012)]
1. I feel I can trust this organization.
2. I have an opportunity to make improvements in my work.
3. The organization values my work.
4. Senior management is committed to high-quality care.
5. I have clear job goals/objectives.
6. I feel I belong to a team.
7. My organization promotes staff health/wellness.
8. I have a good balance of family/personal life with work.
9. My supervisor can be counted on to help with difficult tasks.
10. I have adequate resources/equipment to do my work.
1. I feel I can trust this organization.
2. I have an opportunity to make improvements in my work.
3. The organization values my work.
4. Senior management is committed to high-quality care.
5. I have clear job goals/objectives.
6. I feel I belong to a team.
7. My organization promotes staff health/wellness.
8. I have a good balance of family/personal life with work.
9. My supervisor can be counted on to help with difficult tasks.
10. I have adequate resources/equipment to do my work.
How Does Your Organization Rate?
The image to the right represents recent survey information regarding how engaged hospital employees were.
Consider your own organization and how you would rate yourself, your colleagues or your employees on engagement.
Should this interest you and support your learning, please see this link for Lowe's (2012) article How Employee Engagement Matters for Hospital Performance
What happens when there is empowered interprofessional team work?
The following diagram represents what the outcomes are from empowered interprofessional team work. Consider how this may relate to your role, your colleagues, your organization...and the future!