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________________ without innuendo and rhetoric and desired behaviors must be imbricated in and adhered to a completely luminous operational alignment. Flexible compartmentalization is expected. Individuals must exhibit an emotional intelligence and fabricate responses congruent with the ideology and recapitulate with the culture ecologically. Results will be measured. There is often little actual corporate commitment to this kind of initiative. But, consulting firms will be most pleased to help you construct your customized model to align with your desired results. Certification is optional. And the "investment" can be significant. Cosmetic Empowerment is more common. It is structurally exhibited by managers as: "Yes, but..." COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT WORKING GROUP DEFINING COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT Community empowerment is an elusive concept. The community' half is complicated enough, though there is a clearer understanding of community now than at the beginning of the community empowerment debate. However the 'empowerment' bit has remained problematic. Part of the reason is that empowerment can refer to either a process of becoming empowered or a state of being empowered; another part is that there is no easy definition of what that end state of being empowered is; and a third part is that there are (at least) two dimensions of community empowerment, the formal and the informal. An empowered community is able to take its own decisions and initiatives on those issues which matter to it.. Where outside decisions affect it, it is able to exert influence in its own interest on the other decision takers. If frustrated by the formal decision taking, it has the dder of formal empowerment, with its lowest rungs close to the powerless end of the spectrum and its top rungs close to the empowered end. It embraces: information - the community is informed about what has been decided consultation - the community is invited to respond to a proposal for action but without any commitment to acting on the response formal involvement - the community has a defined role in decision taking on its own behalf but as one interest among several deciding power - the community has the right to decide for itself and has the means to implement its own decisions. 106 C - Ich 31ch 122 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
| SR No. | 524617 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2003 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2003 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |