CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT

Employee empowerment is defined as an extension of employee participation vis-à-vis involvement. Such definition of empowerment is more explicit when we review the contribution of Judith Bardwick (1991), who states that empowerment means giving everyone, instead of just people with certain positions or certain job titles, the legitimate right to make judgements, form conclusions, reach decisions, and then act.

Some career development process ensures promotion of employees from one career path to another. It gradually makes them independent functionaries at later career stages. Such system, therefore, often makes managers uneasy to open up the organizational planning process to individual employees. ...

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