Empowerment and Organizational Change

ABSTRACT: Today, humans are regarded as the most important asset of organizations, and those who are in charge of organizations have found out that human resources are the main actors in all organizations. Therefore, it is important, by empowering human resources through democratic management together with preparing the staff for dealing with changes, to create an organizational environment in which both the humanity and the potential of human beings flourish; to make it possible for achieving organizational growth and target development; and finally, to improve the organization to a level beyond development. Humans, according to their personal talents, can be responsible in the development of organizations and in their own flourishment. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to clarify the concepts of empowerment and organizational change beside the role of human resources in organizational change, and finally to present the relationship between empowerment and organizational transformation in the form of diagrams and various models, hoping that organizational managers take it into account for further efficiency.