EMPOWERMENT

CONCEPT

TYPES

CHARACTERISTICS

ADVANTAGES

MEASUREMENT

DISADVANTAGES

It refers to a business management strategy, which consists of empowering workers to exercise greater autonomy and power in decision-making, in order to optimize the performance of the company.

Political

Economic

Cultural

National

The mutual respect and appraisal

The organization of the tasks is carried out in order to make them easier to carry out.

To build the corporation

Integration or involvement in the decision making.

Empowerment allows decompressing the work of superiors, delegating responsibility to employees.

Every contribution made by employees is significant, which motivates them to do a good job.

Not all employees achieve the same degree of commitment to the company, which can lead to poor decisions.

The opinions of the employees are heard and taken into account.

According to the responsibility that an individual has, they will have the authority to act on behalf of the company.

Sometimes some abuse of power and freedom by employees can arise.

It involves superior employee training so that they are prepared to make decisions.

Short-term changes are not perceived.

Empowerment evaluation is an evaluation approach that aims to increase the probability of achieving program success by:


(1) providing program stakeholders with tools to evaluate the planning, implementation and self-evaluation of their programs.


(2) integrate evaluation as part of planning and managing the program / organization.

Societal