Workplace Empowerment
Empowerment of employees in the work place provides them with opportunities to make their own decisions with regards to their tasks. Nowadays more and more bosses and managers are practicing the concept of empowerment among their subordinates to provide them with better opportunities. According to Thomas A Potterfield, many organizational theorists and practitioners regard employee empowerment as one of the most important and popular management concepts of our time. Companies ranging from small to large and from low-technology manufacturing concerns to high-tech software firms have been initiating empowerment programs in attempts to enhance employee motivation, increase efficiency, and gain competitive advantages in the turbulent contemporary business environment.
Ciulla discusses an inverse case: that of bogus empowerment.
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