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ASSESSMENT FRONT COVER SHEET
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People in Organization
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My individual understanding of employee empowerment
1. Introduction
This essay mainly introduces my own understanding, independent and critical thinking of employee empowerment which come from the previous lectures, communities of practice and sources I have read. Firstly, I will define the employee empowerment and then analyze its significance. In the second part, I will point out its main difficulties in reality, and particularly show our group’s outcomes about nursing empowerment discussed in our workshop before. Finally, I will put some suggestion about how to use empowered structure successfully.
2. Employee empowerment
2.1 Definition
Many authors and scholars have defined employee empowerment in different ways. In my opinion there is no universal definition for it. Gillian Campbell (2009) explained that employee empowerment is one of the operational strategies in a organization, which can promote the organization to be successful by giving staff more right to manage themselves. However, from my point of view, this explanation is incomplete, and employee empowerment is a method to inspire their staff’s responsibility, creativity, and engagement to find ways to solve problems by themselves. Besides, they can make decisions without consulting their managers or supervisors.
2.2 significance of employee empowerment in management
2.2.1 Improve employees’