1) Empowerment is defined as giving employees power and encouraging their increased commitment to organizational success through participative processes. 2) Methods for empowering employees include helping them achieve job mastery, allowing more control, and providing role models and emotional support. 3) Participation is a subset of empowerment that involves innovation, information sharing, and giving employees power and accountability. 4) Barriers to empowerment can include an organizational culture that is incongruent with empowerment, a lack of employee inclination, and fears or desires for guidance rather than autonomy.

1. Chintan
Desai
PGCM-1408

2. • In simple words, empowerment is giving power.
• According to J.I. Cotton
“Empowerment is a participative process
that uses the entire capacity of employee & is designed
to encourage increased commitment to the
organisation’s success”

3. Helping employees achieve job mastery
Allowing more control
Providing successful role models
Using social reinforcement & persuation
Giving emotional support

4. Participation
It is the subset
of
empowerment
• Innovation • Information
• It is the
power
Accountabilit
y

5. Quality circles
(QCs)
Empowered
teams
Participative
management

6. • Organisational culture is found incongruent
• Employee have no inclination
• Employee may have fear in their mind
• Employee want the security of having some one to guide them
• The superior who are power hungery never would like to be part their
authority with there employees.

7. • ICICI
• INDAL
• Bajaj Auto

8. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to
do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
-General George Smith Patton, Jr.
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have
the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally
succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational
success."
-Stephen Covey