Empowering Employees

Rating:
Summary: A Solid Effort!
Review: At its best, Empowering Employees by Kenneth L. Murrell and Mimi Meredith illustrates the vogue concept of worker empowerment as it relates to real-life business, devoid of the touchy-feely clichés such nomenclature may evoke. The book cannot completely avoid a collapse into idealism and jargon however, and long sections of several chapters amount to cheery descriptions of the motivated and satisfied employees that empowerment will breed. These breezy passages fortunately are grounded by examples of companies like Toyota and AT&T that have embraced empowerment - or portions of it - to great success. So if employee-burnout is an issue in your office, or if you are looking for an easy-to-digest explanation of one of today's most popular management trends, we [...] recommend this book to you.


Rating:
Summary: A Solid Effort!
Review: At its best, Empowering Employees by Kenneth L. Murrell and Mimi Meredith illustrates the vogue concept of worker empowerment as it relates to real-life business, devoid of the touchy-feely clichés such nomenclature may evoke. The book cannot completely avoid a collapse into idealism and jargon however, and long sections of several chapters amount to cheery descriptions of the motivated and satisfied employees that empowerment will breed. These breezy passages fortunately are grounded by examples of companies like Toyota and AT&T that have embraced empowerment - or portions of it - to great success. So if employee-burnout is an issue in your office, or if you are looking for an easy-to-digest explanation of one of today's most popular management trends, we [...] recommend this book to you.


Rating:
Summary: Practical Wisdom
Review: Murrell and Meredith have succeeded in bringing together the empowerment research and experience in a very useful book. Instead of reading every book-of-the-moment, read this one. It will talk with you in your language; it will build your confidence that you can do something with what you are reading. Empowering employees happens in face-to-face encounters with them--that's when you need to know what to do, and the authors know that. Besides that, I just flat enjoyed reading this book. And, it's a bargain!

Rating:
Summary: Practical Wisdom
Review: Murrell and Meredith have succeeded in bringing together the empowerment research and experience in a very useful book. Instead of reading every book-of-the-moment, read this one. It will talk with you in your language; it will build your confidence that you can do something with what you are reading. Empowering employees happens in face-to-face encounters with them--that's when you need to know what to do, and the authors know that. Besides that, I just flat enjoyed reading this book. And, it's a bargain!