Impact of Employees' Empowerment on their Performance

In today’s global competitiveness, there is a great desire on the part of the employees to play an active role in organizational activities and as such, every effort should be made to accommodate employees? views. Employee Empowerment, as the name suggests, is to empower or uplift the employees in the organization by providing them the autonomy to take decisions of their own which essentially leads to various positive outcomes among which a better organizational performance is a part. If the employees in an organization are empowered and involved in various decision making activities, then they are positively motivated, their individual performance develops and contribute towards their own as well as organizational objectives. This paper basically deals with the relationship of the empowerment with the employee performance.