Empowerment: tapping employees' ability

Abstract

Looks at the findings and recommendations of an Industrial Society ‘Managing Best Practice’ journal on empowerment and its implications for senior managers. Advocates that empowerment's key concepts are: giving the necessary authority responsibility and resources to those closest to the task; and to ensure there is a no blame culture, in which mistakes are seen as learning opportunities, rather than a reason to use command and control techniques. Discusses, also, self managed teams in the second part of this article — describing them as those which operate in a non‐hierarchical manner.

Citation

Kippenberger, T. (1997), "Empowerment: tapping employees' ability", The Antidote, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006412