Empowerment Practices and Organizational Performance: A Review of Literature

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue VIII, August 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Empowerment Practices and Organizational Performance: A Review of Literature

Dr. Miebaka Dagogo Tamunomiebi1, Hannah Chika-Anyanwu2

¹Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, Rivers State University, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
²Doctoral Student, Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences,Rivers State University, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

Abstract: The This study is a descriptive work aimed at theoretically reviewing existing literature on the impact of empowerment practices on the general organizational performance – having empowerment practice as the predictor variable and organizational performance as the criterion variable. In virtually every organization, the central objective of human resource management is to meritoriously pilot the affairs of the employees by inspiring positive work attitudes such as: enhancing productivity, satisfaction on the job, high morale, enthusiasm and organizational citizenship behavior with absolute reduction of destructive work attitudes like high quest to leave the organization, absenteeism, work evasiveness and deviant work place comportment. Existing studies have revealed that employee performance has a direct relation to an organization’s overall performance and success and that mainly empowered employees are able to perform immensely and cause the overall performance of the organization to be skyrocketed or to be at its peak. In this study, empowerment practices such as autonomy to employees, effective reward system, effective communication/information system employee participation/involvement were found to boost employee performance and by extension organizational performance. It was concluded that empowerment practices predicts organizational performance so long as the cost of adopting this practices does not exceed the profit it generates to the organization. This work will be very relevant to academia, organizations and business world at large as a source of knowledge on the importance of empowerment practice especially in terms of performance with its cost effectiveness in view.

Keywords: Employee Empowerment, Organizational Performance, Autonomy, Communication.

I. INTRODUCTION

Recently, many organizations are emphasizing more on higher levels of job performance via their performance management systems both at individual, group and the organizational levels. Even in highly competitive business environments, virtually every organization wants to be successful. Consequently, many organizations, irrespective of their size and market, make every effort to retain the best work practices and even best employees in other to influence the organizational effectiveness and performance. In other to attain the goal of high performance and necessary success, organizations develop and adopt strategies and work practices to enhance their ability to compete in the highly competitive markets and to increase their general performance level.

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