2. CONTENTS
• Definition
• What empowerment is?
• New system versus old system
• Empowering leadership
• Developing empowering attitude
• Facilitators
• Barriers
• Process of empowerment
• conclusion
3.
4. • Managerial technique to
release the full potential
of every individual in an
organization
5. Empowerment is based on the idea that
giving employees skills, resources, authority,
opportunity, motivation, as well as holding
them responsible and accountable for
outcomes of their actions, will contribute to
their competence and satisfaction.
6. What empowerment is?
• Authority of subordinate to decide and act
• People can empowered by involving themselves
in work through process of inclusion
• Process of reorientation of all forces, values and
beliefs that determine human behavior in
organization
• Process releases full potential of every individual
to contribute to the common enterprise
7. New versus old systems
Old system
• Layers of management
• Each tier control one below
it
• For accomplishing static
goals (low cost, control of
input, predictability,
obedience, creation of
demand, detection of defects
etc.)
New system
• Employees can performs their
roles intelligently, creatively
and with commitment
• Provide competitative edge
• Employees effectively respond
to unexpected problems
themselves and make use of
arising opportunities in their
roles
• Accomplishing dynamic goals
8. Empowering leadership
• Develop leaders who understand the strength and weakness of their
people and support them
• For utilizing their talents and skills
• To develop situational sensitivity to prevent any physical or social
disabilities that hamper employee performance
• Empowering leadership can facilitate the process of liberating the
organization by developing organizational structure that necessitate
collective involvement in decision making
9. Developing empowering attitude
• Implies various solution to problem depending
upon situational factors
• Expecting the best (rather than worst) from
people
• Realizing that there is no right (rather than
only one) answer
• Perceiving the unity(rather than separation)of
brain and hand
13. Process of empowerment
• Valuing employees
• Sharing vision
• Trust
• Provision of decision making information
• Feedback
• Solving problem
• Social reinforcement
• Training
• Emotional support
14. consists of a few simple steps and
lot of persistence and sharing
leadership and accountabilities
