Friday, March 2, 2007

Empowerment


Empowerment means that employees, managers or teams at all levels in the organisation have the power to make decisions without asking their superiors for permission.

The notion underlying empowerment is that those closest to the task are best able to make the decision, provided that they have the required competencies. Actually, the notion of empowerment is historically based on suggestion schemes, job enrichment and worker participation. Moreover, the concepts of delegation are closely related to empowerment

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