This document discusses employee empowerment. It defines empowerment as sharing information, delegating tasks, pushing decision making down the hierarchy, tolerating mistakes, and creating a sense of ownership. Guidelines for effective empowerment include encouraging feedback, cultivating an executive mentality in subordinates, and presenting new challenges. Benefits of empowerment include increased productivity, enthusiasm, morale, quality, teamwork, and competitiveness as well as decreased emotional impact from restructuring. Empowerment is not about bypassing rules or doing others' fun jobs.