empower workers

Far better to have properly empowered workers representatives on company boards.

The other seeks to empower workers and give them a greater voice."

"When businesses moved toward more informal structure and empowering workers, it was fine," she went on.

Now they want empowered workers willing to take risks and make suggestions to improve productivity.

After moving to Chicago he discovers his purpose is to empower workers by having them march in unison.

"As the old saying goes: 'knowledge is power,' and this type of information empowers workers to make the right choices."

Unions are about governance, empowering workers to voice discontent and protect themselves against capricious managers.

One of the ways to empower workers may be by following Toyota Production System in manufacturing.

Protects workers' privacy by empowering workers to choose the type of personal contact information that is provided to the union.

And, over time, empowering workers can have a hugely transformative effect over corporate culture.

Revolution for Gastev meant empowering workers by allowing them to control everyday matters related to work processes.

For a long time, political theorists have spoken about the need for more industrial democracy, empowering workers in the management of the businesses that employ them.

He hoped that these would empower workers and thus limit the PKI's influence.

"President Clinton is looking for a way to empower workers and help them solve problems on their own," Mr. Goldberger said.

Access to the termination data, now secret, would "empower workers, investors, regulators and the public," Ms. Chao said.

Information about collective bargaining, formation of liaison committees, works committees and trade unions was made available in order to empower workers in their struggle.

It shows him as an involved manager who tests products, questions procedures and cares about costs, but cares about satisfying customers and empowering workers even more.

Without balanced job complexes, most workers would most likely end up merely ratifying the proposals of empowered workers, and would have little reason to attend meetings.

Senator Robert F. Wagner proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers to unionize.

Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, said that if Clegg were serious about empowering workers, he would back plans to put employees on remuneration committees.

Empowering workers through unionization and putting the state on the side of labor provided nationalists with a less directly confrontational-and therefore less dangerous-approach to undermining the power of foreign enterprise.

Some executives question whether military people, who are trained to give and follow orders, can adapt to private industry, where the trend is to empower workers to do what the customer, not necessarily the boss, wants.

Federation of Free Workers, June 1950-June 2010, 60 Years of Empowering Workers, 60th Anniversary FFW Souveiner Magazine.

What is missing is the more troubling observation offered lately by people like the New York University sociologist Richard Sennett, who argues that the teams, far from empowering workers, alienate and control them.

Jack Welch developed a program called Work-Out, which was designed to "foster, capture, and implement good ideas, regardless of their origin" and effectively empower workers by encouraging them to speak-up in town-hall meetings.