1. Employee
Empowerment
Name: Sonu Harijan
College: Sunstone Eduverstiy
Course: PGDM

2. Contents
 Employee Empowerment
 Need of Empowerment
 Significance of Empowerment
 Employee Empowerment Level
 Empowerment Process
 Benefit
 Problems
 Characteristics of Empowered Employee
 Conclusion

3. Definition
Empowerment:- Employee
empowerment is a management practice
of sharing information, rewards and
power with employee so that they can
take initiative and make decision to solve
problems and improve service and
performance.

4. Need of Empowerment
 Time to respond is much shorter nowadays.
 There is great-untapped potential.
 Employees feel much more control over their
lives.
 Empowered people do not feel like victims.

5. Significance of Empowerment
Enhances beliefs of employees that they
are influential contributors to the
organizational success.
Employees perceive meaning in work.
Employees feel competent.
Employees derive a sense of self-
determination
Employees believe that they have an
impact on important decisions.

7. Empowerment Process
 Determining the skill level of the employee
 Providing for employee training as needed
 Coaching tasks with which the employee has
some skills but is lacking experience or
motivation
 Supporting tasks where the employee knows
what to do but is still lacking confidence in their
abilities
 Delegating tasks where the employee is
motivated and fully capable.

8. Benefits
 Improved employer satisfaction.
 It also leads to creativity and innovation
since the employees have the authority
to act on their own.
 There is increased efficiency in
employees because of increased
ownership in their work.
 Increases trust in the organization.
 Employees when empowered become
more entrepreneurial and start taking
more risks.

9. Problems
 Managers fear losing their own place
and special privileges in the system.
Industrial Democracy: Labor unions and
workers are empowered and they may
misuse the power.
Security: Since information comes and is
shared by all, there are apprehensions
about leakage of critical data

10. Characteristics of Empowered Employees
• Sense of Self-Determination
• Sense of Meaning
• Sense of Competence
• Sense of Impact

11. Conclusion
 We can conclude that definitely employee
empowerment is a positive element in an
organization.
 Empowering employees develops self
confidence & loyalty in them & leads also
to improved customer satisfaction.

13. Questions?