Empowerment

Some people believe that is a top-down process, senior leader identify vision and goal for follower to
achieving them. Other believer that is a bottom-up approach, the follower will act as entrepreneurs
and owner .they will create rule and also making the decision. these two concept of empowerment
have very different implications for leaders and followers. Conceptual confusion can caused
empowerment program to fail.

2 key component

1.For the leader empower employee, they must delegate leadership and decision making to lowest
level of employee. Employee are closet to the problem and have most information and often make
the best decision.

2 Empowerment and overlooked the follower resource, knowledge and skill necessary to make
decision. Often company adopt and empowerment program but employee no experience in creating
plan ,submitting budget and etc. It can cause poor decision lead to all cracked up.

For Leader wishing to empower must determine what follower can do ability, enhance these
capability and give follower commensurate accountability.

The psychological component of empowerment

1 macro

-Motivation al technique ;Some company empowered program is done to increase motivation and
productivity. Often empowered workers are more productive than unempowered worker. On the
other hand they hear about the benefit of empowered worker of other company some company are
starting to have empowerment with little guidance ,training or support provided as soon as follower
start making poor decision. Adopting effective empowerment taking training , trust and time.

-learning and stress reduction benefit of empowerment. A key benefit helps employee learning their
job , company and industry. The stress reduction benefit well designed program can reduce burn
out, people can control high level of stress. Giving workers more control over their work demand can
improve the company bottom line.

2 micro

-Empowered employee have a sense of self determination. they can make choices about what they
do, how they do, and when it need to get done.

- Empowered employee have a sense of meaning. the believe what the do is important to them and
company success.
-Empowered employee have a high level of competence. they know what are they doing and can
getting the job done.

-Empowered employee have a high influence. they can influence their team and that co worker or
leader will listen to their idea.

Pros

-There is generally an improved quality to the completed work.

-Increased productivity can happen.

-Solving Problems Quicker.Due to the fact that employees are often so close to problems and issues
in a particular department

-Managers and supervisors have much less stress.

-When employees are given greater involvement by increasing their responsibility, they are able to
become more involved in the development of strategies for the organization

Cons

-There may be decreased efficiency or productivity.

- It creates a blurred chain of command.

-There is an increased level of business risk.

-It takes more time to make important decisions.

-Overly confident employees can become extremely arrogant and hard to deal with.