The document discusses empowerment as a leadership theory proposed by Kans Nurse. Empowerment involves giving team members authority and opportunities to make their own decisions to develop accountability. Transformational leadership inspires employees through communication and intellectual stimulation. Characteristics of transformational leadership according to Bernard Bass include motivating employees towards organizational goals over personal interests and encouraging risk-taking through a supportive environment.

1. International Trade and Finance Engineering
Tutor
Max Galarza
Topic Tutoria: 10
Leadership and Empowerment
(Empowerment as a leadership theory by Kans Nurse)
Students
Erick Mancero
Cindy Vera
Ana Paula Silva

3.  Empowerment can be defined as giving others
authority to reach their goals as they see fit.
 Empowerment provides others the opportunities
to make their own decisions and choices.
 The ultimate goal of empowerment is developing
an environment of trust, where every team
member is accountable for their own actions.

4. There are some ways to begin to create
an empowered team:
 Share information with
everyone
 Coach team members to
develop self-
confidence in making
choices and forging
direction.
 Encourage others to assert
themselves and share
ideas so that all
suggestions are offered
and evaluated.

5. Leadership
The theory of Kans Nurse
says:
Leaders utilize power-sharing,
trust, team-building, and
empowerment.
Successful organizations which
practice empowerment
delegate and expect people to
initiate, create and to feel
ownership.
With empowered employees,
the organization, the
customer, and the employee
are all winners.

7. Transformational
leadership
 We are going to use this type of
leadership because is considered
among the most desirable employees,
people who show transformational
leadership typically inspire staff
through effective communication and
by creating an environment of
intellectual stimulation.

8. Bernard Bass
 He was a world class scholar
whom the Society for Industrial
and Organizational Psychology
describes as having invented
organizational psychology.
 His vast array of interests within
his field led to over alongside 31
books, of which he wrote 21 and
edited 10. But of all his work,
Bass will be remembered for one
area where his passion and
persistence led him to focus for
over 20 years: leadership.

9. Characteristics of Transformational
leadership theory (Bernard M. Bass, 1985)
 Links with positive outcomes on
individual as well as organizational
levels.
 Motivate in the direction of self-
sacrifice and achievement of
organizational goals over personal
interests.
 Idealized Influence demonstrate
heightened to generate a sense of
shared risk-taking.
 Affords a cradle of encouragement
and challenges followers to
achieve the set goals.

14. References
 http://terriklassconsulting.com/2011/07/07/empowering-your-team-to-
succeed/
 http://www.zeepedia.com/read.php?leadership_and_empowerment_power_s
haring_and_empowerment_share_information_leadership_and_team_manage
ment&b=49&c=20
 http://pslinstitute.com/leadershipempowerment.html
 https://www.pocketbook.co.uk/blog/2016/05/24/bernard-bass-
transformational-leadership/
 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293885908_Leadership_Theories_
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