This document discusses employee empowerment. It defines empowerment as encouraging employees to take responsibility for improving their jobs and contributing to organizational goals. Empowerment involves giving employees information, knowledge, power, and rewards. Key aspects of empowerment include self-efficacy, self-determination, impact, trust, and meaningfulness. Empowerment can be achieved through approaches like helping employees master their jobs, providing role models, allowing more control, and giving emotional support. Empowerment benefits organizations by creating intrapreneurship, effective leadership, and competitive advantages like speed and flexibility. However, barriers like managers clinging to authority and inadequate organizational climate can limit empowerment.

1. PERSONNEL EMPOWERMENTByVaishnavi Ragunathan

2. What Is Empowerment?“Empowerment means encouraging and allowing individuals to take personal responsibility for improving the way they do their jobs and contribute to the organization's goals” -Richard Carver Empowering employees involves giving 4 elements

3. Information

4. Knowledge

5. Power

6. Rewards CHARACTERISTICS OF EMPOWERMENTEmployees feel empowered and respected

7. Process of personal development

8. Different from delegation of authority

9. Employees are trusted and valued

10. Open and responsive culture

11. Employee assumes managerial and staff responsibility

12. Empowering not means someone else to loose itCORE DIMENSIONS OF EMPOWERMENT

13. SELF-EFFICACYA sense of personal competence

14. Belief that I have the ability to perform the task

15. Belief that I am capable of putting forth the effort

16. Belief that no outside obstacles will prevent me from accomplishing the task.SELF-DETERMINATIONTo be self determined means to experience a sense of choice in initiating and regulating one’s own actionsA sense of personal choice

17. Choices about the methods used to accomplish a task