Empowerment

empowerment
A management practice of sharing
information, rewards, and power with
employees so that they can take
initiative and make decisions to solve
problems and improve service and
performance.
Empowerment is based on the idea that
giving employees skills, resources,
authority, opportunity, motivation, as
well holding them responsible and
accountable for outcomes of their
actions, will contribute to their
competence and satisfaction.
USAGE EXAMPLES
There are many intangible benefits
to my job: great colleagues,
interesting tasks, many new
challenges, but most of all,
empowerment to make decisions in
my department.
By keeping my staff informed of
changes within the company and
thoroughly training them in all
processes I am giving them a sense
of empowerment.
Rhonda's weight loss increased her
self-confidence considerably, giving
her a sense of empowerment she'd
never experienced while overweight
and self-conscious.