MPAD 502

Fermarie C. Dulpina
 1788 when empowerment was seen as
authority designation in organization role
which should be assigned to someone
(Wilkinson, 2003)
 Bowen et al (2006) believed that
empowerment is front-line employees’ share
in four elements: information, knowledge,
award and power.
 Cameron (2008) defines empowerment as the
process of giving power to people.
 Fry (2005) has defined empowerment as
decision making power distribution to people
who lack it.
 Webster - transferring authority or allocating
legal power to others.
 Oxford – enabling. which means helping
people to improve their self-confidence and
through this can overcome their sense of
disability and helplessness (Fong &Snape,
2014).
 conducting and applying internal motivation
in order to do a task. (Smith, 2000).
 in general means giving more power to
someone
 the giving or delegation of power or
authority; authorization
 the giving of an ability; enablement or
permission
 Employee empowerment is a management
strategy that aims to give employees the
tools and resources necessary to make
confident decisions in the workplace without
supervision.
 Empowerment is a long-term, resource-
intensive strategy that involves significant
time and financial investment from the
organization’s leaders.
 Empowerment is the giving away and sharing of
power with those who need it to perform their
job functions.
 Such power sharing provides people with the
belief in their abilities and their sense of
effectiveness.
 Participative decision makers, leader coordinates
and facilitates decision-making based on free
and frank discussion, sharing of information and
views, generation of alternatives and the gradual
emergence of a consensus view to which
everyone is committed.
 The willingness to assign responsibility to
others
 Lessens the load on the leader
 Involves having sufficient trust in the person
to whom we delegate work.