Motivation Through Empowerment

Recent years clearly show a rising interest in methods for managing human resources that may help increase the input of workers in the success of the organization as well as make possible full access to 'hidden resources' of knowledge, creativity, and worker initiative (Thompson, 1999). A concept that seems to bring in a wealth of input into the discussed question is the empowerment of workers. This article discusses the idea of empowerment, its basic definitions, and the scope of its variety of concepts. The results of empirical studies thanks to which new dimensions of worker empowerment have been identified are also presented.