Empowerment of employees in creative economic business: Case study of the developing economy

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Abstract

Companies engaged in the creative industry right now are implementing employee empowerment as one step in the organization to participate more effectively and make things work well (Siachou & Gkorezis, 2018). Empowerment teaches how employees make decisions and accept responsibility for the results of what they do. Related to the issue of development and creative economic growth, what are the organization’s efforts towards employees in creative industry companies through empowerment employee (McRobbie, 2016)? This study aims to determine employees’ perceptions of employee empowerment and the impact of empowerment on creative business. This research is qualitative research with a case study approach. The subject of the research is 18 employees at the company Janur Biru, Surakarta. Data collection was done through interviews, observations, and review of documents. Long-time observation and research take about 6 months. Research data are analyzed by classifying data based on various data available, then connecting with data and information obtained from literature, documents, surveys, interviews, and field observation. Based on the results of research conducted at Janur Biru about employee empowerment, it can be concluded, that overall empowerment for employees is good. The most dominant employee empowerment is accountability. The dimensions of desire are generally good. However, the lack of creative encouragement for employees to think about work strategies is because work strategies are still being made by leaders.

Keywords: Employee Empowerment, Creative Economy, Creative Economic Business, Organizational Culture, Employee Participation, Creative Industries, Entrepreneurship

Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualization — A.U.; Methodology — A.U.; Formal Analysis — A.U., Y.A.Y, and Y.K.; Writing — Original Draft — A.U., Y.A.Y, and Y.K.; Writing — Review & Editing — A.U., Y.A.Y, and Y.K.; Supervision — A.U.

Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

JEL Classification: A13, E24, J54, L26, O31

Received: 11.02.2021
Accepted: 14.07.2021
Published online: 16.07.2021

How to cite this paper: Utomo, A., Yulia, Y. A., & Khristiana, Y. (2021). Empowerment of employees in creative economic business: Case study of the developing economy. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 10(3), 93–103. https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv10i3art8