Employee Empowerment

One of the most studied and researched areas of modern management technique includes staff or employee empowerment which duly allows the employees to take on independent tasks and stand by their decisions, though the same may call for a certain set of guidelines, as also the subject of the following paper. Various researches and studies have found that employee empowerment leads to a truly nurturing environment where the employees can 'learn, grow, improve and enhance their functioning or performance abilities. Staff or employee empowerment also provides for a creating an environment of trust, importance in the eyes of the employers, and since it enhances the capability of the respective employee; the same also leads to the creation of a positive work environment within the organizational set up.

In the different researches and studies of employee empowerment, such as one carried out by Erickson et al, revealed that employee empowerment is said to occur when the management and employers pursue goals of both personal as well as professional growth for their employees. For example the senior managers and leaders within the organizations can assist their employees in enhancing their capabilities, in turn enhancing their potential to fully utilize their capabilities.

The following paper takes on the example of the employee empowerment in an health care setting where employees at all the levels are put through a number of processes and operations, resulting in the creation and conversion of the same staff into one that was more committed and was observed to use his or her full capabilities within the same settings. The employee empowerment also resulted in the provision of an enhanced nature of services for the clients/patients, as well as make better use of the functional system provided thereon.

The Different Methods Applied to Enhance Staff Empowerment
Making the Employees More Responsible
One of the first aspects noted in a number of organizations was