What is employee empowerment and how is it a key factor in helping organizations becoming more effective ?

Abstract EN

Employee engagement simply refers to a workplace approach designed to ensure that employees are committed to their organization's goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success, and are able at the same time to enhance their own sense of well-being.Employee engagement can also be defined as the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization, and put discretionary effort into their work.

Engaged employees look out for the needs of their coworkers and the overall enterprise, because they believe that they personally ‘own’ the result of their work and that of the organization.

They know exactly how their work and effort contributes to the success of the organization.

Empowered employees are engaged employees.

They have all of the tools they need to learn and develop themselves, connect with colleagues and others throughout the organization, make their own decisions, be leaders and contribute to the success of the business.

In simple terms, empowerment is a key driver of engagement.