Empowerment is about power, which can be defined as the ability to get intended effects.
Empowerment enhances that ability. Employee empowerment represents a giant step away from traditional management-worker relations. It means eliminating whole tiers of management that exist mainly to control other people's work. It means giving responsibility for decision-making to the same employees who used to have their bathroom breaks timed. Properly understood and implemented, it can be a cure for many of the ills that plague organizations '' reducing absenteeism and turnover, enhancing quality, and boosting productivity.