An investigation on the empowerment of employees and it's impact on employee productivity and effectiveness

Abstract

Traditional organizations and their structures had been mostly relied on policies and procedures with defined set of rules to influence the employee work and behavior. An employee who comply with rules and procedures produce acceptable and a predictable work, but the drawback encountered in this method was that was there wasn’t any passivity in the employee. The traditional organization controls works through a hierarchy of management levels. This bureaucracy has a strong chain of command and controls decisions from the top to bottom Employee Empowerment is giving the rights to own the responsibility alongside authority with an autonomy of decision-making. An empowered organization is a good fit for unstable or rapidly evolving environmental and market conditions. The scope of moral awareness on employee empowerment looks reluctant in many organizations and is lacking importance, this lies a key factor in mounting more stress to the employees. The present study was aimed at studying the concepts of the term’ Empowerment’ and its importance in today’s workplace scenario, the association between work stress, psychological empowerment and work place satisfaction and the need to empower the employee to increase the system values of an organization.