The document discusses employee empowerment. It defines empowerment as enabling employees to set work goals, make decisions, and solve problems within their areas of responsibility. Empowerment enhances employee beliefs that they meaningfully contribute to organizational success, gives them a feeling of competence and self-determination, and makes them believe they can impact important decisions. For empowerment to succeed, certain prerequisites are needed, like involvement, quick decision making, error tolerance, communication, and trust between managers and employees.

1. A Presentation on EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT For the subject of : Presented By : Human Resource Development Harshul Nagpal mba - 855 Roll No. – 50 Institute of Management Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

2. Meaning Power is a tool to pass on to those who work on organization’s behalf. “ To empower,” means to enable, to allow or to permit, and can be conceived as both self-initiated and initiated by others. Empowerment is the process of enabling employees to set their own work-related goals, make decisions and solve problems within their spheres of responsibility and authority.

3. Need of Empowerment Time to respond is much shorter today. First line employees must make many decisions. There is great-untapped potential. Employees feel much more control over their lives. Empowered people do not feel like victims.

4. Definitions “ Empowerment is the process of sharing power with employees”. Bateman & Snell: 2003 “ Employee Empowerment predominantly about encouraging front-line staff to solve customer problems on the spot, without constant recourse to management approval”. Goldsmith et al: 1997

5. Ways of Employee Empowerment Express confidence in employees’ abilities. Hold high expectations concerning their performance. Allow employees to participate in the decision-making process. Allow employees freedom and autonomy in how they perform their jobs. Use position power in a positive way and limit the use of coercive power . Set inspirational and managerial goals for employees.

6. 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. Pre-requisites of Employee Empowerment Involvement Quick decision-making Solving complex problems 360-degree Feedback Variable Rewards with some Group Component Error Tolerance Enhanced Communication Generalists Managers and Employees Trust and Support of Management

8. Process of Employee Empowerment

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