empowerment

empowerment
empowerment em‧pow‧er‧ment [ɪmˈpaʊəmənt ǁ -ˈpaʊr-] noun [uncountable] HUMAN RESOURCES
when workers in a company are given more responsibility by being allowed to organize their own work, make decisions without asking their managers etc. For the company, this has the advantage of making their employees more involved and able to help clients more quickly:

• The trend is towards empowerment and allowing junior employees to take personal initiatives that normally would have been beyond the scope of their jobs.

— see also participative management management

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empowerment UK US /ɪmˈpaʊəmənt/ noun [U]
HR the process of giving a group of people more freedom or rights: »

This approach to management emphasizes the empowerment of workers to make decisions.

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The government's economic empowerment program aims to create jobs and raise living standards in the poorer communities.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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