BYVignesh.s

EMPOWERMENT

It is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make

choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.

Empowerment can be Social Political Economic Educational & Cultural

EMPOWERMENT

• “Empowerment is not giving people power, people already have plenty of power, in the wealth of their knowledge and motivation, to do their jobs magnificently. We define empowerment as letting this power out.

WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT?

• Responsibility and ownership• Working independently towards common objectives• Earned privilege not a given right

EMPLOYERS`S POINT OF VIEW

To be more proactive To take up responsibilities and challenges To contribute To bring solutions

INDIVIDUAL`S POINT OF VIEW

More autonomy To make decisions Visibility and recognition Empowering service users -- giving the respect, dignity and encouraging their

participation in decision making, maintaining rights, providing choice

Barriers of empowerment

Managers do not really understand what employee empowerment mean

Managers fail to establish boundaries for employee.

Allow barriers to impede the ability of staff members to practice empowered behavior.

communication

Law of empowerment

Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick

good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

leaders fail to empower others

Desire for job security  Resistance to change Lack of self-worth 

METHODS OF EMPOWERMENT

Delegated empowermen

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Limited ownership

Local control

conclusion

"Leadership must be based on goodwill... It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers... What we need for leaders are men of heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away."