Everyone talks about empowerment, but it's not working. CEOs subtly undermine empowerment.
Employees are often unprepared or unwilling to assume the new responsibilities it entails.
Even change professionals stifle it. When empowerment is used as the ultimate criteria of success in organizations, it covers up many of the deeper problems that they must overcome. Internal commitment occurs when employees are committed to a particular project, person, or program for their own individual reasons or motivations. Internal commitment is very closely allied with empowerment. The problem with change programs designed to encourage empowerment is that they actually end up creating more external than internal commitment.