Empowerment
* allows individuals to share knowledge, experience and ideas.
* also occurs at various levels, such as individual, group, and community.
* comes from visualizing and experiencing the music, the spectacle, dance
  - within a woman
  - with access to public transportation
* comes, in part, from control over satisfaction of basic human needs.
* directly impacts on the development of independent judgment skills.
* embodies vertical teamwork between managerial and non-managerial personnel.
* facilitates full participation of all cultural groups in today's schools and society
  - transformation and transformation never occurs in a vacuum
* flows from motivation for learning.
* follows from believing in oneself, in one s family, in one s heritage.
* fosters feelings of confidence and also provides opportunities for self-growth.
* gives others the autonomy and confidence to act independently.
* giving of power that also provides for underpinning and support.
* happens while people interact in ways of mutual respect, tolerance and social support.
* heady experience quickly tempered by the reality of responsibility.
* helps build confidence and aids in relationship management.
* includes capacity building and strengthening in various dimensions.
* increases ownership of outcomes, and reduces the burden on management.
* involves an approach to programming rather than applying simple techniques
  - shifting responsibility to employees further 'down' the management hierarchy
* is about being able to change things
  - government being the people s servant
  - power, which can be the ability to get intended effects
* is also a key aspect in providing motivation and direction to others
  - women's overdue reward for filling the planet with humans
* is an essential process for women's advancement
  - important metaphor for leadership
* is an overused and under-practiced term
  - word and an underused process
  - authority that is given with the ability to choose where to spend productive time
  - how respect is implemented within the framework of a software company
  - multi-dimensional, social, and a process
  - now a widely-used sociological term
* is one of the greatest gifts to give oneself
  - key ingredients to getting more done with fewer resources
  - keys to institutionalization
  - simply a new, different, and effective way of working together
* is the act of shifting authority and responsibility for work
  - aim of social interaction in the context of public health
  - instrument of change
  - key to motivation
  - means to enable and the ability to make possible a change
  - preferred salve for society's wrinkles
  - process of authorizing the union of the angelic and human together
  - transforming and liberating character of participation
  - too often synonymous with abdication by management
* means authorizing and enabling workers to do their jobs
  - decision making at lowest level of organization is supported
  - empowering parties to define issues and to seek solutions on their own
  - giving people responsibility and support to actualize that responsibility
  - helping someone regain a sense of being in charge
  - permitting employees to make choices and decisions as they deem appropriate
  - that every person has a voice and a responsibility
* natural extension of employee involvement.
* occurs when individuals or groups have opportunities and authority to take action.
* powerful tool of leaders.
* process that challenges our assumptions about the way things are and can be.
* socio-political concept and it goes beyond political participation.
* struggle even within families.
* term that means different things to different people.
* therefore involves notions of employee involvement in decision making.
* works in nature
  - with people