A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT IN INDIAN CORPORATE SECTOR

Many researchers have emphasized the fact that empowerment drives people to put in their best possible efforts to achieve the organizational goals and objectives. It is also clearly established by many researchers that a satisfied worker or employee would be a real productive one. In this age of tough global competition, it becomes imperative for organizations to achieve higher levels of productivity to remain in the race and to outsmart the competitors. This study is taken up against this back drop. It is intended to cover six companies across six industries in India. A structured questionnaire was designed from the review of literature and distributed to 800 junior and middle level employees working in these companies at Chennai by using quota and convenience sampling methods. An analysis was performed on 477 usable responses to determine the impact of empowerment on employee satisfaction.