EMPOWERMENT

Empowerment means encouraging

and allowing individuals to take
personal responsibility for improving
the way they do their job and
contribute to the organization's goals.
By – RICHARD
CARVER
 ELEMENTS OF EMPOWERMENT
1. Self sufficiency – It means that one
is capable of successfully performing
a particular task.
2. Meaningfulness – It means the
feeling that the task is valuable both
to the organization and to oneself.
3. Impact – It refers to the belief that
one has influence on decisions of the
organization.
 APPROACHES TO EMPOWERMENT

 BOWEN AND LAWLER HAVE SUGGESTED FIVE

APPROACHES TO EMPOWERMENT

1. Helping employees achieve job mastery

2. Allowing more control
3. Providing successful role model
4. Using social reinforcement and persuasion
5. Giving emotional support
 IMPORTANCE OF EMPOWERMENT
1. Knowledge workers – Knowledge employees are not prepared to
accept the old command and control system. They want job
environment which provide them opportunities for exercising control
over work related decisions.
2. Cut throat competition – In order to survive and grow in
competitive era, organization must meet the needs of customers
more effectively. When the customer demand rapid increase then it
become easier to meet the demand through the employees
empowerment than through the change in process and technology.
3. Speed and flexibility – It refers that the managers can focus more
on the external changes than the internal problem solving.
4. Globalization- It refers that in order to achieve the coordination
and control in the new economy, staff must exercise much greater
responsibility.
5. Human resource development – Here employee empowerment
helps to develop a flexible and adaptive organization and this
organization defines itself, its priorities and values and the way it
deals with its people to change their mindsets.
 BARRIERS TO
EMPOWERMENT
1. Incongruent organizational structure – In such a culture,
Incongruent organizational structure – In such a culture,
authority is centralized at the top and there is lack of
meaningful sharing of authority.
2. Love for authority – power hungry managers cannot
empower the staff. Such managers are autocratic. They want
their importance felt in the organization.
3. Fear of retribution by superior – A manager may not
empower his employees if he is punished for each and every
failure or mistake of his subordinates.
4. Fear of retribution by subordinate – empowerment
cannot flourish when there is fear in the mind of subordinates
that they will be punished for taking initiative.
5. Dependency of subordinates – It refers that some
subordinates are comfortable with command and control by
then boss.
 MAKING EMPOWERMENT
EFFECTIVE
 IMPACT
 COMPETENCE
 MEANINGFULNESS
 CHOICE