This presentation summarizes employee empowerment and involvement. It defines employee empowerment as providing employees with tools and authority to solve problems and continuously improve performance. Employee involvement means valuing each employee and soliciting their input. The objectives of empowerment are financial benefits, job security, motivation, performance increase, decision-making involvement, and an organized environment. Key dimensions of empowerment are meaningfulness, impact, competence and trust. Organizational conditions that support empowerment are clear goals/vision, structure, evaluation, rewards, development and resources. The presentation discusses empowerment's relationship to industrial relations, productivity, quality and engagement. It provides tips for empowering employees such as fostering communication, rewarding self-improvement and clearly defining