Question

In the twenty-first century, employees are no longer striving to have an ‘equal say’ with management over organizational strategies, principles, and decisions. Rather, there is a much more personalized focus on improving the individual conditions of each organizational member. Briefly discuss what is meant by the “empowerment era”.

Answer 1

• Empowerment Era:- The empowerempt era refers to the era in which the employees not only focuses on the goals of an organization for which they are working but also focuses on the personal goals.
• It is also coined by various management experts that every individual or employee has some needs which need to be fulfilled in order to motivate the employees and to achieve the goals.
• In today's era individual not only gets satisfied from the basic physiological needs i.e. basic salary and the survival needs.
• Every individual has much more expectations such as safety and security needs and self esteem needs.
• In this empowerment era, the employer can not confine an employee to work for the organizational goals only but have to fulfill certain needs of the employee to achieve the organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner.