Research Paper on:
Concept of Employee Empowerment

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the "fad" becomes a bonafide business tool. One such tool is still on the fence in terms of its effectiveness. This tool is employee empowerment, and some have claimed that  providing their employees with more decision-making capacity has actually helped improve productivity and morale. The reason why this concept has not been embraced fully, however, is because some experts are  still not convinced that the concept of employee empowerment is effective in all industries. Like with many fads or theories, the concept of empowerment sounds very good on paper, and  it should work very well in practice. The reality, however, can prove to be much different than the empowerment experts would like to believe.  This paper will examine what, precisely, employee empowerment is and how companies manage it. The paper will also cite some studies that have been done in this area and  will also use, as examples, companies that have introduced employee empowerment into their corporate culture. What it is Employee empowerment at its most  basic level is pretty much as it sounds - it involves empowering employees, or rather, delegating work, authority or responsibility to individuals at lower levels within the organizational hierarchy with  the idea that delegation makes employees feel more important and feel as if they are an integral part of a company, rather than just another human face or cog in  the corporate machine (Paul et al 471). The feeling behind employee empowerment is that it helps improve morale, thereby improving productivity and customer service - and ultimately impacting the  bottom line in a very positive way. The ultimate assumption behind empowerment is that people dont need to be better managed, rather, they want to have authentic leadership responsibilities (Schrage