The document discusses empowerment and defines it as increasing individuals' or groups' capacity to make choices and transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. Empowerment can take social, political, economic, or educational/cultural forms. The document then examines empowerment from the perspectives of employers and individuals. Employers view empowerment as making employees more proactive, responsible, and able to contribute solutions. Individuals view empowerment as greater autonomy, decision-making ability, recognition, respect, and participation in decisions affecting them. The document outlines some barriers to empowerment and methods to achieve it, such as delegated empowerment, local control, and limited ownership. It concludes that true leaders empower others by giving away their own

1. BY
Vignesh.s

3. EMPOWERMENT
It is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or
groups to make
choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and
outcomes.
Empowerment can be
 Social
 Political
 Economic
 Educational & Cultural

4. EMPOWERMENT
• “Empowerment is not
giving people
power, people already have
plenty of power, in the
wealth of their knowledge
and motivation, to do their
jobs magnificently. We
define empowerment as
letting this power out.

5. WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT?
• Responsibility and ownership
• Working independently towards common objectives
• Earned privilege not a given right

6. EMPLOYERS`S POINT OF VIEW
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To be more proactive
To take up responsibilities and challenges
To contribute
To bring solutions

7. INDIVIDUAL`S POINT OF VIEW
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More autonomy
To make decisions
Visibility and recognition
Empowering service users
-- giving the respect, dignity and encouraging their
participation in decision making, maintaining rights, providing
choice

8. Barriers of empowerment
 Managers do not really
understand what employee
empowerment mean
 Managers fail to establish
boundaries for employee.
 Allow barriers to impede
the ability of staff members
to practice empowered
behavior.
 communication

9. Law of empowerment
 Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others
 “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick
good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough
to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

10. leaders fail to empower others
 Desire for job security
 Resistance to change
 Lack of self-worth

11. METHODS OF EMPOWERMENT
Delegated
empowerment
Local control
Limited
ownership

12. conclusion
 "Leadership must be based on goodwill... It means obvious
and wholehearted commitment to helping followers... What
we need for leaders are men of heart who are so helpful that
they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But
leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers.
Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it
away."