Employee empowerment means that an employee has the power to take some decisions without consulting his boss or reporting manager. Employee empowerment is an essential part of employee retention. But due to many known or unknown reasons, it fails. Some of the reasons may be:
• Managers don’t take employee empowerment seriously in the first place. It becomes more of a prestige issue to give control to others.
• Even if managers take it seriously, they are unable to lay down proper boundaries for the empowerment.
• Managers sometimes fail to provide a strategic framework.
• Managers sometimes don’t provide the information, and growth & learning opportunities that are needed by the employ to empower himself and take good decisions.
• On the other hand, managers sometimes hand over all responsibilities to the employee. This may lead to misuse of powers given to the employee.
• Some managers act like a barrier and hamper the decision making practice of the empowered employee out of jealousy.
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