Employee Empowerment in Indian Organisations: The Employees Perspective

Abstract

Employee Empowerment oriented practices have established themselves as a distinct and important paradigm of performance excellence. But literature associated with empowerment has often been criticised for being based on management perspective. The present paper aims to explore employee empowerment from employees perspective. Further employees perception is studied across various variables like gender, sector, organisation etc. Awareness, Availability and Effectiveness Level comes out to be in Aware, Fairly Available and Effective category of five-point rating scale. Paper reports concern in employees perception regarding availability of empowerment practices in Indian organisation. Further, significant difference in employees perception was found among two genders, among employees of manufacturing and service sector, among employees of public and private organisations. The present paper highlights that employees’ perception is quite favourable thus adoption and concentration of HPWPs is easy in Indian settings. It is well known fact that positive perception of employees help in participative and enthusiastic implementation of HPWPs.

Keywords: Performance, Employee Empowerment, Management by Objective, Employee Stock Option Plan, Problem Solving Team.

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