Empowerment

Empowerment has been described as an act of building, developing, and increasing employees power through cooperation, sharing, and working together.

The process of sharing power and providing an enabling environment in order to encourage employees to take initiative and decisions to achieve organisation and individual goals.

Empowering variables:

Respect of team members

Top-management attitude towards human resources

Open communication 

Opportunities for learning application

Organizational support for innovation

Responsive superiors

Opportunity self development

Degree of formality

Performance linked feedback

Autonomy

Consequences:

Increased...

Self-effacing 

Organizational commitment 

Work environment satisfactorily 

Role satisfactorily 

Job involvement

Support for innovation: 

Measured by the following items.

My organization is flexible enough to adopt any change quickly

My organization encourage innovation 

Top management encourages new ideas and risk taking 

This organization is receptive to new ideas 

This organization facilities and provide opportunities for individual creative work