- empowerment
- noun see empower
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
empowerment
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empowerment — em‧pow‧er‧ment [ɪmˈpaʊəmənt ǁ ˈpaʊr ] noun [uncountable] HUMAN RESOURCES when workers in a company are given more responsibility by being allowed to organize their own work, make decisions without asking their managers etc. For the company, this… … Financial and business terms
empowerment — index charter (sanction), droit, force (strength), freedom, license, sanction (permission) … Law dictionary
Empowerment — For the piece of public art, see Empowerment (sculpture). For the Tibetan Buddhist practice, see Empowerment (Tibetan Buddhism). Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, racial, educational, gender or economic strength… … Wikipedia
Empowerment — Mit Empowerment bezeichnet man Strategien und Maßnahmen, die geeignet sind, den Grad an Autonomie und Selbstbestimmung im Leben von Menschen oder Gemeinschaften zu erhöhen und die es ihnen ermöglichen, ihre Interessen (wieder) eigenmächtig,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Empowerment — L’empowerment, terme anglais traduit par autonomisation ou capacitation, est la prise en charge de l individu par lui même, de sa destinée économique, professionnelle, familiale et sociale. L empowerment, comme son nom l indique, est le processus … Wikipédia en Français
empowerment — In human resource management, the giving of increased responsibility and a measure of control to employees in their working lives. The concept is based on the view that people need personal satisfaction and fulfilment in their work and that… … Big dictionary of business and management
empowerment — empower, empowerment Empower is a 17c verb meaning ‘to give power or authority to’. In the 1970s it acquired a new meaning, ‘to make (someone) able to do something’, implying the freedom to adopt moral values and principles of one s choice as… … Modern English usage
empowerment — [[t]ɪmpa͟ʊə(r)mənt[/t]] N UNCOUNT: oft the N of n The empowerment of a person or group of people is the process of giving them power and status in a particular situation. This government believes very strongly in the empowerment of women … English dictionary
empowerment — empower, empowerment → empoderar(se) … Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
empowerment — The delegation of decision making authority to individuals at lower levels of an organization. Management theory frequently advocates empowerment of employees as a way of mitigating some of the dysfunctional effects of traditional *chain of… … Auditor's dictionary
empowerment — To allow greater employee decision making. ► “Management’s definition [of empowerment]: Work harder with fewer people, don’t rock the boat and don’t complain.” (Supervision, Jan. 1994, p. 3) … American business jargon
