Empowering Employees at the Workplace

Abstract

In today's global corporate environment of fast-paced innovation, fierce competition, and diverse inventiveness, employee empowerment is essential. Employee empowerment encourages worker autonomy, boosts worker self-esteem, and allows for universal authority and responsibility sharing. Employee empowerment proposes that treating people with respect, providing them with guidance, assistance, recognizing their contribution and involving them in decision-making process, leads to better and more productive workplace. Employee empowerment is accomplished by raising employees' self-efficacy and reducing decision-making and problem-solving times, all of which are vital to the company's long-term viability. Therefore, it is obvious that granting employees greater power and responsibility within a corporation promotes employee empowerment, a vital element of effective management and organizational performance. The goal of the present paper is to address some of the most significant aspects of employee empowerment and elaborate certain examples of employee empowerment policies and practices of a few world-famous companies.