Employee empowerment provides a sense of high self-esteem, high
degree of involvement, and a greater sense of achievement. It has
been observed that employee empowerment is the only influential factor
for significant business growth. Hence success or failure of participative
management will depend on clarity, caution and sensitivity with which
they are dealt. Adequate preparations are required by way of developing
mutual understanding on these issues before the schemes are
launched. It is an important process in the organization to foster better
decision-making, high job satisfaction, higher productivity, low
absenteeism & labor turnover, better problem-solving through initiation
of learning environment and opportunities for personal growth and
development which in turn result into greater organizational effectiveness.

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