What is worker empowerment? Provide an example

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Worker empowerment is the ability that workers have, usually in small groups, to manage their own work efforts and to develop creative ideas and solutions to problems. By doing so, they take greater pride in their work, become more productive, and take on more responsibility. Examples of worker empowerment include a work team firing and hiring within its own group without approval from upper management, coordinating its own budget, and perhaps raising its own budget by introducing new products or increasing production.