Is a multi-dimensional process that helps employees gain control over their area of responsibility through the offered and accepted responsibility and authority given to then? Employees who accept this power understand their scope of responsibility and use this freedom to progress their situation both in a Business sense and in a personal development sense.
When management empower they do not abdicate from their overall responsibility, on the contrary they have to be more skill in coaching and mentoring to ensure they gain the most from empowering people.
Empowering decompresses organizations as it effectively enables delegated scenarios to be worked on by different levels in the organization.