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To the great majority of employees in organizations, the concept of empowerment means transferring organizational decisionmaking authority from managers to rank and file employees (Carr, 1994, pp. 3944). To the great majority of executive committee level officers and directors of organizations, the concept of employee empowerment is viewed as a strategy to improve organizational productivity and profitability (Carr, 1994, pp. 3944). To the great majority of middle managers in organizations, employee emp

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s for each organizational unit will be compatible with and will support to objectives of both the next higher organizational unit and the overall objectives of the total organization. The objectives established within a nominal group decisionmaking framework perform four essential functions within an organization. These functions are to: (1) provide direction, by focusing the efforts of all members of an organizational unit on common goals, as well as upon the goals of the overall organization; (2) serve as motivators, by clearly establishing and defining the yardsticks by which performance at each organizational level will be evaluated; (3) contribute to the process of management, by enhancing the organizational planning process, and by providing a set of realistically attainable goals, the accomplishment of which can easily be monitored; and (4) establish the basis for an organization's philosophy, by providing for orderly progress toward organizational goals, as opposed to the participation in crash programs to achieve such goals. An essential requirement for an effective implementation of a nominal group decision making process is timely, accurate, and reliable information which can be and is disseminated to all to whom
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