Organizations are currently facing rapid and continuous changes, already immersed in the XXI century, we find ourselves with economic cycles characterized by the fluctuations of the stock markets in the world, a high competitiveness in the face of globalization and an activity within organizations very intense, which has created new challenges for companies, such as new competitors, new demands for quality and service, among others, which force companies to be more efficient. Organizations must then adapt, grow and learn new ways of carrying out their activities.
It is in this context that many management experts recommend more sensitive management modes, highlighting the importance of human capital, with an application of reinforcement in managerial skills and the application of flexibility in the management of human resources in organizations, giving a high importance to the concept of “socialization” of companies, that is to say, making the treatment of employees more humane, leaving aside corporate paternalism and the politics that I command here, and that is that organizations today need workers that they can make decisions, that they can find solutions to the problems that are presented to them, that they acquire initiative and are recognized for the results achieved.
Traditionally, numerous organizations have adopted management models where the manager's role was to keep processes and people under close control. The best managers were those who maintained the most control over their people. Employee behavior had to be monitored and controlled by managers and supervisors.
Today, in many modern organizations, people have the power to make their own decisions and manage themselves, where management looks to its employees to enhance individual creativity, hold people accountable for their results, and invite them to develop high commitment. towards their work, they are places where the management is oriented to use the Empowerment.
Empowerment is a process that allows greater power and autonomy to be given to employees in an organization, with the objective of increasing the competitiveness and profitability of an organization based on improving the value of the contribution of its personnel, in their respective positions of work or equipment.
It is characterized by promoting innovation and creativity, making better decisions and enriching jobs, the process requires essential trained employees to assume increasing responsibilities. With the use of this process, individuals at the individual level or as members of an organization feel competent, considering themselves effective and feeling integrated in the company, in which they assume the highest level of delegation from their superiors.
Achieving the commitment of the workers of an organization to this new philosophy requires a change in management attitudes, which should seek to direct the staff in charge towards the construction of a workplace where Empowerment is the base. of the organization's culture.
With the Empowerment, the employees of an organization have a greater sense of purpose in their jobs and in their lives, bringing better ideas and initiatives to their work with a sense of enthusiasm, property and pride, developing their creative capacity, motivating teams of work to which they belong, making decisions with the security that gives them, both self-confidence and the performance of their colleagues.
