Employee empowerment involves giving employees autonomy and responsibility for decision-making regarding their tasks. It shares power with lower-level employees to better serve customers. The benefits of empowerment include improved employee satisfaction, better performance, increased trust in the organization, and allowing organizational power to grow. Empowerment levels range from encouraging employee roles to enabling bigger decisions without approval. Challenges include message disconnect, insufficient training, reluctant managers, increased risk, and slowed decision-making.

2. Introduction
1.Employee empowerment is giving employees a
certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for
decision-making regarding their specific organizational
tasks.
2.sharing varying degrees of power with lower level
employees to better serve the customer.
3.To invest people with authority.

3. Benefits
• Improved employer satisfaction.
• By being shared, organizational power can grow.
• Employees to perform better.
• Increases trust in the organization

4. Employees Empowerment Levels
1.Encouraging employees to Play a more
effective role in their work.
2.Involving the employees to
improve the ways things are done
3.Enabling the employees to make
bigger decisions without having
refer to a senior.

5. 1.Identifying Reasons for Empowerment
2.Changing Behavior of Senior Management
3.Determining Impact of Employee Decisions
4.Establishing Work Teams
Process of Employee
Empowerment

6. 5.Sharing Information
6.Selecting the Right Employees
7.Providing Training
8.Communicating Expectations
Conti………..

7. Challenges Of Employee Empowerment
• 1. Message Disconnect
• 2. Insufficient Training
• 3. Reluctant Managers
• 4.Increased Risk
• 5.Slow decision making
• 6. Breakdown of Organizational Structure

9. Pros of Employee Empowerment
• It leads to greater job satisfaction, motivation, increased
productivity and reduces the costs.
• 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.

10. Conti…..
• Lesser need of supervision and delegation.
• Employees when empowered become more entrepreneurial
and start taking more risks. Greater the risk, greater are the
chances to succeed.
• Focus on quality from the level of manufacturing till actual
delivery and service of goods.

11. Cons of Employee Empowerment
• Egotism / arrogance: Worker arrogance can create a big trouble for
the supervisors and the managers. There can be problems in
delegating. Employees avoid reporting about their work and feedback
can be taken negatively.
• Risk: Creativity and innovation demands a greater risk bearing
capacity and there are equal chances of success and failure. Workers
often lack the expertise to execute are enterprise, which can cost big.

12. Conti….
• Industrial Democracy: Labor unions and workers are empowered and
they may misuse the same. Strikes and lock outs become more
frequent. Also, labor unions gain insights into management and their
functioning and they leak the same.
• Security: Since information comes and is shared by all, there are
apprehensions about leakage of critical data