BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Empowerment
- the redistribution of power and decision making responsibilities, usually to employees, where such authority was previously a management prerogative. Empowerment is based on the recognition that employee abilities are frequently underused, and that, given the chance, most employees can contribute more. Empowered workplaces are characterized by managers who focus on energizing, supporting, and coaching their staff in a blame-free environment of trust.
Wiktionary Definition for: Empowerment
- the granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group
Additional Resources
- Psychological Empowerment In The Workplace: Reviewing The Empowerment Effects On Critical Work Outcomes
- This paper reviews theory and empirical findings on the effects of empowerment in the workplace. Data from existing studies is used to assess the effects of the four empowerment dimensions on affective and behavioral employee responses. Data is reanalyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. Confirming growing skepticism among practitioners and academics,...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- THE WHITE HOUSE: President, Vice President highlight an empowerment agenda for tapping America's potential.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 May 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- President Clinton and Vice President Gore highlight an empowerment agenda for tapping America's potential C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:250599 Today, the President and Vice President are visiting a successful...
- Research articles 1999-05-26
- The Paradox of Empowerment
- Effective empowerment means letting go and taking control. CEOs who thrive in this paradox tap people power — the only sustainable competitive advantage. Like any paradox, the paradox of empowerment is full of traps. It ensnares CEOs who cannot accept or live in the contradiction of taking control and letting...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Planning Framework for Community Empowerment Goals Within Health Promotion
- This article presents a framework intended to assist planners, implementers and evaluators to systematically consider community empowerment goals within top-down health promotion programming. The framework 'unpacks' the tensions in health promotion at each stage of the more conventional, top-down programme cycle, by presenting a parallel 'empowerment' track. The framework also...
- White papers 2000-08-25
- Production without empowerment: Work reorganization from the perspective of motor vehicle workers
- This paper examines the relationship between new forms of work organization and worker empowerment from the perspective of workers. The data is drawn from a survey of 5,635 Canadian automobile workers. Workers were asked questions about their work-load, health and safety conditions, empowerment, and relations with management. It examines what...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- "Is Power-sharing Possible?" Using Empowerment Evaluation with Parents and Nurses in a Pediatric Hospital Transplantation Setting
- This article describes the evaluation of an innovative empowerment project aimed at improving nurse-family communication in a pediatric transplantation setting. Empowerment and family-centered care models were employed to reduce barriers to communication and build partnerships. The goals of the project were to facilitate empowerment, power-sharing, and joint decision-making among nurses...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Office of the Vice President -- Vice President Gore lauds success of community empowerment initiative; Announces new investments in underserved communities.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 June 2000-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Vice President -- Vice President Gore lauds success of community empowerment initiative; Announces new investments in underserved communities C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28062000 Columbus, OH -- Addressing the 6th Annual...
- Research articles 2000-06-29
- ADB to promote greater empowerment for Nepal's most disadvantaged women.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 December 2004-ADB: ADB to promote greater empowerment for Nepal's most disadvantaged womenC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12162004 MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank ADB will promote greater economic, social, legal, and political empowerment of poor rural women in...
- Research articles 2004-12-16
- Sappi Ld announces Empowerment Transaction
- Sappi/ Lereko - Announcement of a Black Economic Empowerment Transaction Sappi Limited Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration Number (1936/008963/06) Share Code: SAP & ISIN ZAE000006284 ("Sappi") Lereko Investments Proprietary Limited Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration number (2004/013452/07) ("Lereko Investments") ANNOUNCEMENT OF...
- Research articles 2006-04-19
- Fifth Third pushes economic empowerment program
- Michigan Chronicle 07-27-2004 The American dream for most families, regardless of social position, is economic empowerment. It is one of those common goals that crosses lines, builds neighborhoods and even energizes a generation. Communities of economically empowered citizens reject crime and grime and...
- Research articles 2004-07-27
- Intel to Hire from Tacoma, Wash., "Empowerment Zone".(Originated from The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.)
- TACOMA, Wash.--Mar. 3--To qualify for state sales tax breaks totalling $4.3 million, Intel has pledged to employ 92 workers from several economically distressed Tacoma neighborhoods designated as the Tacoma Empowerment Zone. In applying for the sales tax break, Intel said it would try to hire...
- Research articles 1996-03-03
- Empowerment as a Process
- Empowerment is not in vogue simply because it's another motherhood issue. It's not a component of the Total Quality Management TQM movement simply because it makes people feel better about them and will, therefore, make them work harder and be more productive for the business entity. If management knew for...
- White papers 2003-02-07
- Individual, Job, Organizational and Contextual Correlates of Employment Empowerment: Some Greek Evidence
- This study is part of a larger project exploring the usefulness of the empowerment construct in the Greek context. Using a sample of 154 mature working students one examined the influence of demographics (gender, age and work experience), personality traits locus of control, job factors managerial status, organizational attributes size,...
- White papers 2004-10-22
- Employee Empowerment: Democracy or Delusion?
- This paper is a reflection on one of the more interesting concepts in the contemporary management of human resources employee empowerment. This innovation is considerably more complicated than it might at first appear and its pedigree is rather longer more convoluted and more controversial that some might expect. This paper...
- White papers 2004-02-07
- Empowerment in the Context of Transformational Change: A Study of Acquisitions and Privatizations in Eastern Europe
- This paper examines conditions under which empowerment (decision autonomy, dialogic leadership) is connected with positive and negative effects, respectively, in regard to managing transformational change in Eastern Europe. Acquisitions by foreign investors in Poland and Russia (N = 45 companies) and privatizations through employee buy-out in Romania (N = 5...
- White papers
- Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?
- Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?RE: Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?It appears the author's bias with regard to Wal-Mart is coloring her judgment of whatever the reason is for the poor customer service. I see the allegation, "The obvious explanation is that employees just don’t care...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Jerra Spence: Encouraging Empowerment
- Jerra Spence: Encouraging EmpowermentRE: Jerra Spence: Encouraging EmpowermentHello, Dearmy name is grace i am 23years old, i saw your profile today and becameintrested in you,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send anemail to my email address so that i can send you my...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-02
- HHS: meeting. The Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information Community Empowerment workgroup is set to meet April 25 and May 1 in Washington.(Federal Register)
- HHS: Meeting. The Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information Community Empowerment workgroup is set to meet April 25 and May 1 in Washington. The meetings will make ... HHS: Meeting. The Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information...
- Research articles 2006-04-14
- Progressive's attitude now matches name: mellowed CEO Lewis sees worker empowerment fueling big growth. (Progressive Corp.; Peter Lewis)
- A mellowed Peter Lewis has embraced employee empowerment as the engine to drive Progressive Corp. on an aggressive growth strategy that is expected to create 1,500 jobs by the year 2000 at the company's Mayfield Village headquarters. Once a suit-clad A mellowed Peter Lewis has embraced...
- Research articles 1994-10-17
- EDITORIAL: Aggressive Marketing Needed for Boston's Empowerment Zone.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
- Jun. 5--There is still a role for Reginald Nunnally, the program director for Boston's empowerment zone, in bringing economic development to the city's poorer neighborhoods. But he lacks sufficient contacts in Greater Boston's major banks, investm Jun. 5--There is still a role for...
- Research articles 1997-06-05
