Empowerment - advantages and disadvantages

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According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary empower is defined as "to give official authority or legal power to" therefore employee empowerment would be giving official authority and power to employees, or giving the employees responsibility for what they do. Employee empowerment, or just empowerment, has many positive and also many negative or controversial sides, throughout this paper I will discuss these points and discuss them in depth. Empowerment is a trend that has been hitting companies since the 1990's. The movement had originally started in the 1980's when managers were encouraged to give their workers more involvement in work-related decisions but has now grown into its own controversial topic as 31% of companies define themselves as empowered. Advantages Many companies believe that being ...

... needed for the company to run efficiently. This could start problems with the managers and upper-level staff due to the conflict of opinions. Conclusion To summarize what we have talked about, empowerment has many positive and many negative effects. It can be a negative effect because of the possibility of threats to the workers. If the workers are not happy, they will not be productive, and if they are not productive, you as the owner will lose money. However, although there is the potential for chaos because of empowerment, there is a vast amount of benefits that come with it. If you have a good management team to guide your work force

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