The impact of employee empowerment on organization performance

Empowerment means encouraging the people to make decisions with least intervention from higher management. Employee empowerment is defined as giving the power to employee to make decisions. It is form of freedom in which employee takes decision to ensure maximum satisfaction to organization. Empowerment is the initial, fundamental and enhances the productivity. Employees are the assets of organizations. Implementation of empowerment programs seems to be the biggest challenge organizations face. The organization has the responsibility to create a work environment which helps foster the ability and desire of employees to act in empowered ways. The implementation often takes years, especially if the organization has a bureaucratic culture. It also seems that empowerment implementation efforts are often haphazard. Employee empowerment is proper procedure to compete the capability of worker for enhancing their commitment and achievement of growth and success of organization.