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Employee Empowerment as a Mechanism of Improved Quality of Work life: An Empirical Study

Year	2011
Volume/Issue/Review Month	Vol. - IV \| Issue 5 \| July
Title	Employee Empowerment as a Mechanism of Improved Quality of Work life: An Empirical Study
Authors	Mr. Bijaya Kumar Sundaray , Dr. Santosh Kumar Tripathy
Broad area	Employee Empowerment as a Mechanism of Improved Quality of Work life: An Empirical Study
Abstract	In recent years, organizations have realized the importance of human resource and are focusing on adequate HR strategies such as empowerment, joint decision making, suggestion scheme, multi skilling, etc. for improving the quality of work life of the employees. Empowerment is an environment in which people have the ability, the confidence, and the commitment to take the responsibility and ownership to improve the process and initiate the necessary steps to satisfy customer requirements within well-defined boundaries in order to achieve organizational values and goals. The present study focused on employee empowerment measures adopted by Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) after restructuring to improve the quality of work life of the employees.
Description	Managers in the new millennium have been facing stern challenges in this cutting edge of technological advancement and the process of globalization. Free market competition, open-market economy, trade liberalization, cross-border mega-mergers and acquisit
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