3. EMPOWERMENT
It is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or
groups to make
choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and
outcomes.
Empowerment can be
Social
Political
Economic
Educational & Cultural
4. EMPOWERMENT
• “Empowerment is not
giving people
power, people already have
plenty of power, in the
wealth of their knowledge
and motivation, to do their
jobs magnificently. We
define empowerment as
letting this power out.
5. WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT?
• Responsibility and ownership
• Working independently towards common objectives
• Earned privilege not a given right
6. EMPLOYERS`S POINT OF VIEW
To be more proactive
To take up responsibilities and challenges
To contribute
To bring solutions
7. INDIVIDUAL`S POINT OF VIEW
More autonomy
To make decisions
Visibility and recognition
Empowering service users
-- giving the respect, dignity and encouraging their
participation in decision making, maintaining rights, providing
choice
8. Barriers of empowerment
Managers do not really
understand what employee
empowerment mean
Managers fail to establish
boundaries for employee.
Allow barriers to impede
the ability of staff members
to practice empowered
behavior.
communication
9. Law of empowerment
Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick
good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough
to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
10. leaders fail to empower others
Desire for job security
Resistance to change
Lack of self-worth
12. conclusion
"Leadership must be based on goodwill... It means obvious
and wholehearted commitment to helping followers... What
we need for leaders are men of heart who are so helpful that
they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But
leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers.
Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it
away."
