Employee Empowerment. Benefits and Disadvantages

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: N.A., , language: English, abstract: Employee empowerment is a concept that allows employees within an organization to make more decisions that affect themselves and the organization as a whole. It is important to empower employees of an organization because it can lead to a personal connection to work performance, increased competency, higher self-determination, a feeling of making a difference within the organization, and an increase in trust and communication. Although the concept of employee empowerment comes with many advantages, there are also disadvantages to empowering employees. The main disadvantages of employee empowerment is training costs and adjusting to a new power dynamic. Training employees to participate in decision-making tasks can be difficult, especially if the employees have no previous experience with decision making within the organization. Along with the new training comes an adjustment period to the new power dynamic. After empowerment, employees have more power over their individualized tasks and how those tasks effect the organization as a whole.