Employee Empowerment: A Comparative Study among Different Theories

In today society, running the affairs depends on organizations. Through their radical functions in the fields of discipline, needs satisfaction, dynamism and social progress, organizations play a vital role in the continuing lifecycle of societies. Obviously, their performance quality is too important. Organizational performance is influenced by their human capital quality aspects (i.e. knowledge, capability, motivation). Thus, empowerment has far distance from organization traditional concept. Today organizations need certain characteristics such as transparency and constant improvement to continue their life and to achieve such characteristics they should empower their human force as their most important resource and competitive advantage. To this end, the author has provided requirements, processes and advantages of empowerment of employees here and looks for studying different empowerment models and showing their weaknesses and strengths. Therefore, it is necessary to address knowledge development, capability and motivation of human forces in order to develop organizational human capital and, consequently, its performance improvement. The author has determined superior empowerment components.