Explain the five broad approaches to empowerment.

What will be an ideal response?


The five broad approaches to empowerment include the following:

• Helping employees achieve job mastery (giving proper training, coaching, and guided experience that will result in initial successes)
• Allowing more control (giving them discretion over job performance and then holding them accountable for outcomes)
• Providing successful role models (allowing them to observe peers who already perform successfully on the job)
• Using social reinforcement and persuasion (giving praise, encouragement, and verbal feedback designed to raise self-confidence)
• Giving emotional support (providing reduction of stress and anxiety through better role definition, task assistance, and honest expressions of caring)

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