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Empowerment
Empowerment - Baldrige Glossary Definition
(Baldrige Glossary for Business, Government (Public Sector) and other Nonprofit
The term 'Empowerment' was first introduced in the Baldrige Glossary in 2000.
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Empowerment
The term “empowerment”
refers to giving people the authority and responsibility to make
decisions and take appropriate actions.
Empowerment results in decisions being made closest to the
“front line,” where work-related
knowledge and
understanding reside. Empowerment is aimed at enabling people to satisfy customers on first contact, to improve processes and increase productivity, and to improve the organization’s performance results. An empowered workforce requires information to make appropriate decisions; thus, an organizational requirement is to provide that information in a timely and useful way. |
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New: For the first time, you can now download special MS Word versions of the 2012 Baldrige Criteria in a format approved by more than 20 national award programs