Empowerment is a lot like costs or profit.
Managers who focus on controlling costs or managing the money send their organizations on a path of enforcement and control. The way to make profit is to focus on, act on and build great processes to serve the customer. When managers focus on cost or budget or profit or empowerment it is like a team focusing on the score and not practicing the fundamentals. When our goal is profit or empowerment we miss the real point of the organization and do not obtain either one. If management wants evolvement because it is nice, benevolent or the thing to do there will be problems with attitude as well as confusion about purpose.