Impact of Psychological Empowerment on Employee Performance - A Conceptual Review

Abstract

Despite decades of extensive research by academicians and rigorous exercises of management practitioners, "Empowerment" construction is incomplete and still facing skepticism. Many leading service companies have dropped the thought of empowerment from their management practices list and some abandoned the idea completely, others still successfully working on this approach into a balanced way of people management strategies to make employee performance effective. Several researchers found positive relationship between empowerment cognition and effectiveness at the level of the individual employee. Given these observations this paper intends to review conceptual evidences on the empowerment effects. "To be empowered people must "feel" empowered. Believing in this idea this paper attempts on psychological perspective because it enables to systematically review both the theoretical and conceptual evidence on the effects of empowerment in the workplace.