The Power of Empowerment

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Control Structure ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Creative Mind ◽  
High Motivation ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Universe

King Solomon, the icon of wisdom, is reported to have remarked that there is nothing new under the sun. Everything in God's creation has always been around us. What changes is our perception and awareness of them. At any instant, we notice some things and overlook many others. As time marches on, we stumble across (or discover!) facets of the universe we had not noticed earlier. They may appear new to us, but in fact, they are as ageless as creation itself. Empowerment is an example. Though some may proclaim it to be a new management tool, its underlying principles are, in fact, timeless—albeit largely ignored in our day-to-day conduct. It was always known that, among all the resources at management's command, it is only people who are blessed with an extraordinarily creative mind with infinite potential. There is no limit to what they can think of and accomplish. Given the right environment, they can overcome all challenges and excel at whatever they undertake to achieve. In essence, they are the real source of all competitive advantage. Furthermore, the power of their innate creativity is multiplied manifold when coupled with esprit de corps. Sharp thinking and high motivation is an explosively potent combination. Regrettably, however, we have not always acted according to this axiom. In practice, we appear to have been guided more often by deep-rooted suspicions about the mental capabilities and potential of people. We have proceeded on the assumption that they are quite erratic in their ways, indolent by nature, incapable of assuming responsibility, and sometimes even mischievous. Therefore, the only way to get them to perform reliably is to straitjacket them in a traditional command-and-control structure. Tell them what to do, and how; ensure compliance through ever-watchful control mechanisms, and a regime of incentives or punishments. McGregor labeled this approach as Theory X. It still has many confirmed followers.

Galileo Unbound

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Free Fall ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
Quantum Particles ◽  
Light Rays ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Insight Into

Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, The Universe and Everything traces the journey that brought us from Galileo’s law of free fall to today’s geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman’s dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once—setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

The interplay between entrepreneurial orientation and control mechanisms on decision-making and new product performance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Civilai Leckie ◽  
Heath McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Control Structure ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Product Performance ◽  
And Control

Purpose This study aims to investigate whether an organization that is entrepreneurial oriented can benefit from having a formal control structure and process in new product development (NPD). This study investigates two well-known control mechanisms in NPD, namely, stage-gate system (SGS) and project management (PM), as well as decision-making comprehensiveness (DMC), reflecting the amount of information processing and investigative activities undertaken. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 238 Australian small and medium enterprises. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses. Findings The findings of this study suggest that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) directly impacts new product performance and indirectly does so through DMC. While both control mechanisms positively impact DMC, they affect the EO–DMC relationship differently. While SGS positively moderates the EO–DMC relationship, PM negatively does so. However, the use of SGS and PM enhances the effect of EO on DMC. Practical implications This research provides managers with insights into the design of structure and process in NPD to support interfunctional coordination and firm strategy. The findings of this study suggest that managers should be amenable to the application of control mechanisms and DMC. The calibration of the right mix of control systems is required to ensure that EO can contribute to decision-making in the NPD process. Originality/value On the surface, the implementation of EO requires flexibility while the control mechanisms and extensive information processing are seen as restricted structures for NPD activities. However, rather than viewing EO and control structure as counterintuitive elements in NPD, the results suggest that appropriate use of control structure can support organizational strategy and decision-making activities, which subsequently enhance NPD outcomes.

scholarly journals Highlighting the complex interrelationship between the concepts of trust and control

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Peter Beusch
Keyword(s):  
Management Control ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control

This paper presents the area of management control and trust in an inter-organizational setting with an attempt to offer a fresh perspective on the complex relationship between and different understandings of the two concepts of trust and control. This is done with help of two case studies in a cross-cultural setting and involving five multinational companies that were involved in two large acquisitions. Obviously, different actor groups’ cultural and educational heritage has brought with it that dissimilar opinions exist on the subject of mainly system-based versus inter-personal based trust.The paper first demonstrates that trust and control can mean different but also the same things to different people, depending very much on the logic and values applied but also depending on if the actors were motivated more intrinsically or extrinsically. Further, what impact certain control mechanisms, or the lack thereof, have on individual’s behavior is outlined. The paper also reveals that it is difficult to find the right balance between diverse types of control and trust as time went on after the acquisitions. The main reason for this is that actors with different socio-cultural heritage use different references regarding trust and control and put unlike emphasis on what should be focused on, what should be counted, and what should be accounted for. Trust and control can mean almost identical things but the cases illustrate that, from a rhetorical and convincing point of view, system trust appears to be stronger in certain settings than inter-personal trust, as it, to particular actors, provides the impression of being in control. The contrary is true in other settings, where having ‘facts and figures’ and ‘a whole bunch ‘of accounting systems and accounting techniques not automatically mean to be in control, thus leaving more room for the use and appreciation of inter-personal trust.

Panbabylonianism

1910 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crawford H. Toy
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Right ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Plant Forms

In the year 1794 Charles François Dupuis brought out his Origine de tous les cultes, ou religion universelle, a work that made a great stir in its day. His object, he explains, was not to express his own religious views, but simply to describe the opinions of the ancients. The religion of antiquity he represents as the recognition of the divinity of the universe, the heavenly bodies playing the chief rôle; all ancient cosmogonies, with heaven and earth, all the apparatus of religion (ritual, processions, images), and all myths were derived from sun, moon, planets, and constellations. The beast-forms and plant-forms of the Egyptian deities, for example, were copied from the constellations into which men had divided the starry sky; the zodiac was associated with the sun as a cause of mundane phenomena, and the division of the sky into twelve parts gave vogue and sacredness to the number twelve among Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks; the sun was the chief god—it was called the right eye of the world, and the moon the left eye; from the victory of the sun over darkness and winter sprang the idea of a Restorer of the world, a Saviour. He remarks also that the ancient Chaldeans were distinguished for their achievements in astronomy, and that from them the knowledge of these sciences was carried to the West. They taught that the heavenly bodies controlled mundane destinies, and, according to Diodorus, that the planets were the interpreters of the will of the gods.

Perspective from Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 361-370
Author(s):  
Eduardo Cazap ◽  
Gilberto Schwartsmann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Is Implementation ◽  
Control Programmes ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control

Abstract: A lack of epidemiological data and political commitment was the conclusion of a study about breast cancer in Latin America. The available data show a 5-year survival rate in Latin America fluctuating around 70%. Healthcare coverage is expanding, although not across all dimensions. There remain vast differences in access to care. The economic burden is significant, while countries allocate insufficient resources to tackle the disease. Many Latin American countries (LACs) have no formal national cancer control programmes in place to define the critical processes. Guidelines exists, but the challenge is implementation. A big issue in LACs is the having in place the right policies and control mechanisms to ensure compliance and applicability for the entire population.

scholarly journals Konkurrierende Konzeptionen der Gesundheitspolitik

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-250
Author(s):  
Wilfried Boroch
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Intervention Policy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control

Abstract There are several ideas about health policy. The purpose of this article is to describe the health-specific guiding ideas, planning and control mechanisms and objectives that explain the main thrust of thinking and action of the two currently most important policy conceptions. On the one hand, this is the conception of health policy as economic policy, and on the other hand the health sciences approach of health policy as health-based intervention policy. The differences between both concepts are not trivial and show fundamentally different ideas of the allocation and distribution of health goods and services. When choosing “for or against” the “right” health policy approach, these systemic differences must be adequately taken into account.

Cosmology and Meteorology

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Daryn Lehoux
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Great Fear ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Shape And Size

This chapter explores Epicurean explanations of a set of phenomena that are not directly reachable by empirical study because they happen at a remote distance from humans on earth. These include cosmological phenomena such as the shape and size of the universe, astronomical phenomena such as the rising and setting of the sun, as well as meteorological phenomena such as thunder, lightning, and earthquakes. I argue that these phenomena are particularly important to Epicurean ethics insofar as they are presented as causing great fear in non-Epicureans, who fail to understand that they are explainable without recourse to divine beings. In the end, Epicureans do not typically offer single authoritative explanations for these individual phenomena, but instead have recourse to the idiosyncratic Epicurean doctrine of multiple explanation, where inaccessible phenomena are often given multiple possible explanations, only one of which need be correct to allay fear, even if we cannot know which particular explanation is the right one.

scholarly journals Serological and Molecular Based Diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii in Galliformes by using ToxPK1 gene

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-122
Author(s):  
Farman Ullah Khan ◽  
Nageen Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Protein A ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Universe

Purpose: The zoonosis caused by Toxoplasmagondii is known to be the third worldwide parasitic infectious disease. The living life, including human, chickens, cows and goats are at high risk because of its bulky circulation in the universe. The study was conducted to diagnoseT. gondii in Galliformes. The main objective of this study was to compare VetLine Toxoplasma with ToxPK1 gene as a marker for the detection of T. gondii. Study Design: An Experimental study. Subjects and Methods: The study subjects involved were 35 broilers in which 80% were females and 20% were males. Results: It was displayed that the female broilers have a little high rate of prevalence (29.63%) as compared to male broilers (25%). Conclusion: It was concluded that VetLine Toxoplasma in which protein A/G fixes to all IgGs subclasses from various mammalian species and the use of ToxPK1 gene as a molecular marker for the detection of T. gondiiwere100% matched. To eradicate and control this neglected zoonosis, there is an urgency need for risk factors control mechanisms; secondly specific, rapid and inexpensive diagnostic and treatment approaches.

Rancang Bangun Sistem Penerimaan Dan Mutasi Barang Pada PDAM Tirta Kerta Raharja

Sensi Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-246
Author(s):  
Ilamsyah Ilamsyah ◽  
Yulianto Yulianto ◽  
Tri Vita Febriani
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Visual Modeling ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control ◽  
Web Based System ◽  
The Web

The right and appropriate system of receiving and transferring goods is needed by the company. In the process of receiving and transferring goods from the central warehouse to the branch warehouse at PDAM Tirta Kerta Raharja, Tangerang Regency, which is currently done manually is still ineffective and inaccurate because the Head of Subdivision uses receipt documents, namely PPBP and mutation of goods, namely MPPW in the form of paper as a submission media. The Head of Subdivision enters the data of receipt and mutation of goods manually and requires a relatively long time because at the time of demand for the transfer of goods the Head of Subdivision must check the inventory of goods in the central warehouse first. Therefore, it is necessary to hold a design of information systems for the receipt and transfer of goods from the central warehouse to a web-based branch warehouse that is already database so that it is more effective, efficient and accurate. With the web-based system of receiving and transferring goods that are already datatabed, it can facilitate the Head of Subdivision in inputing data on the receipt and transfer of goods and control of stock inventory so that the Sub Head of Subdivision can do it periodically to make it more effective, efficient and accurate. The method of data collection is done by observing, interviewing and studying literature from various previous studies, while the system analysis method uses the Waterfall method which aims to solve a problem and uses design methods with visual modeling that is object oriented with UML while programming using PHP and MySQL as a database.

EFEKTIVITAS METODE DEMONSTRASI DALAM MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEJURUAN PADA PENGAJARAN SISTEM KOLOID

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Hamda Situmorang ◽  
Manihar Situmorang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
Colloid System ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Control

Abstract Implementation of demonstration method in the teaching of chemistry is assigned as the right strategy to improve students’ achievement as it is proved that the method can bring an abstract concept to reality in the class. The study is conducted to vocational high school students in SMKN1 Pargetteng getteng Sengkut Pakfak Barat at accademic year 2013. The teaching has been carried out three cycles on the teaching of chemistry topic of colloid system. In the study, the class is divided into two class, experiment class and control class. The demontration method is used to teach students in experimental class while the teaching in control class is conducted with lecture method. Both are evaluated by using multiple choise tests before and after the teaching procedures, and the ability of students to answer the problems are assigned as students’ achievements. The results showed that demonstration method improved students’ achievement in chemistry. The students in experimental class who are taughed with demonstration method (M=19.08±0.74) have higher achievements compare with control class (M=12.91±2.52), and both are significantly different (tcalculation 22.85 > ttable 1.66). The effectivity of demostration method in experimental class (97%) is found higer compare to conventional method in control class (91%).

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