Question

Employee empowerment is defined as:
a. the movement of women and minorities into managerial positions. b. giving employees the responsibility and authority to make decisions.
c. leading employees by the strength of one's charisma.
d. the act of continually learning and improving one's skills and abilities.

Answer 1

Answer: giving employees the responsibility and authority to make decisions.

Explanation: giving employees the autonomy to make a decision concerning certain organisational task I.e delegating authority to people at the lower level of an organisation organogram is a typical example of employee empowerment. It improve organisation throughput in most cases because it is this group of people that come in contact with most of the challenges facing the organisation are best at proferring a solution to the problems.