1Research Scholar, Research and Development Centre, Department of Social Work, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
2Research Supervisor, Research and Development Centre, Department of Social Work, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
Empowerment involves giving employees the autonomy to make decisions about how they go about their daily activities (Carless, 2004; Haas, 2010). Empowerment makes the worker to be a knowledgeable worker. The study was conducted with an aim to identify the strategies that are involved in empowering employees at work. To facilitate employee empowerment the organizational characteristics are very much essential towards addressing the need and wants of employees. Empowerment is a process that enables individuals and groups to fully access their personal and collective power, authority and influence and to employ this power when engaging with the people, other institutions or society. Factors such as communication, confidence, motivation, participation, and involvement are considered as the responsibilities for making an employee empowered and are analysed in this study. The study was conducted among middle and upper level managers with an idea to understand impact of Competence Feeling, Sense of Being Meaningful and Being Impactful on the empowerment of middle and junior management level who in turn believed empowering their subordinates.
Empowerment, Strategies and Knowledge worker
