he term empowerment refers to measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible

1. Empowerment
BY: Syed Faizan Ali Shah
4358-FMS/BBA/S15
International Islamic University ,Islamabad

2.  Meaning of Empowerment
 Need of Empowerment
 Approaches to Empowerment
 Process of Employee Empowerment
 Significance of Empowerment
 Characteristics of Empowered Employee

3. 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.

4. Definition
“Empowerment is
the process of
sharing power
with employees”.

5. Need of empowerment
 Powerlessness
 Low self- efficacy

6. Five broad approaches to
empowerment
 Helping employees achieve
job mastery
 Allowing more control
 Providing successful role
models
 Using social reinforcement
and persuasion
 Giving emotional support

7. Characteristics of
empowered employees
 Trust
 Mutual respect
 Involve in the decision
making
 Building the corporation

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

9. Process of Empowerment
 Valuing employees
 Sharing vision
 Trust
 Provision of decision making information
 Feedback
 Solving problem
 Social reinforcement
 Training
 Emotional support

10. Benefits of Empowerment
 All ees view themselves as ‘Owners’of the business
 Improved productivity
 Creativity & Innovation
 Customer-focus
 Faster decision-making
 Organizational learning
 Making full use of Human resources-
 “Engaging the mind of every employee”

11. Degrees of Empowerment
 Total management control- No employee
discretion
 Participatory management- management
generally controls the work & the
context,but allow ees to make some
decisions(typically minor ones)
 Self-management- ees make most decisions
pertaining to their work and work setting

12. Organizational improvement through
employee empowerment
 First, empowerment can strengthen motivation by
providing employees with the opportunity to attain
intrinsic rewards from their work, such as a greater
sense of accomplishment and a feeling of importance.
 Intrinsic rewards such as job satisfaction and a sense
of purposeful work can be more powerful than
extrinsic rewards such as higher wages or bonuses.