Employee Empowerment Essay

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Chapter # 01 INTRODUCTION Employee empowerment concept is getting popular day by day in the management circles of modern corporate world especially in the service sector. Employee Participation, Involvement and satisfaction are strongly linked with motivation and performance. Other than that, to be successful in today’s business environment, companies need the knowledge, ideas and creativity of every employee, from front line workers to the top level managers in the executive suite. In a competitive environment in which organizations must be faster, leaner, provide better service quality, be more efficient, and more profitable, an empowered and proactive service worker is thought to be essential (Bowen and Lawler, 1992; Bowen and Lawler, 1995). However, delegation of authority for a long period of time in the past, dominated the management field. In fact, this view changed into the “empowerment” concept as mentioned by Conger & Kanungo (1998). It covers the participation and delegation of authority along with the motivation of the employees. Managers began to prefer a style, which liberates the creative and innovative “energies” and potentials of employees while benefiting shareholders, suppliers and customers as well. Thus, the past three decades have been full of empirical and conceptual research dealing specifically with employee empowerment and autonomy. More than a decade ago, Conger and Kanungo (1988) noted that the practice of empowering subordinates is a principal component of managerial and organizational effectiveness. Most of the researchers and many others argue that empowerment needs to be supported and nurtured by some prerequisites like incentives, skill and knowledge, and communication and flow of information within an organization climate conducive to employee empowerment in order to attain employee effective performance and job satisfaction.

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