Employee empowering is one of the most important business processes to succeed in today’s high competition business world. Many company managers are still confused about the degree of empowerment to employees. Usually this degree of empowerment depends on the company’s nature, industry, ownership, product, sales and marketing practices, customer service strategy etc.

1. Giving full authority, with no restriction, to employees is less practiced and is also less advised. This type of empowering may work for employees who are highly specialized, qualified and educated; may also work if the employee’s decisions wouldn’t affect the company that much.
2. Companies can empower employees, so that they make decisions of their own and later inform the managers and all others concerned. If any mistake is noticed, the employee is cautioned of it. This empowering option may work well with sales representative and customer service persons who usually have to work away from the office.
3. Empowering subordinates to find out most suitable decision and then approve get it approved from the boss; is perhaps the best empowering option available in an office environment. The boss is informed of every thing while employees are empowered to take decisions.
4. Another employee empowering option available involves employees presenting the problem/information and then boss makes decisions. Although it is not so much ‘empowering’, it may work well for small offices and companies, where workload on boss is not that much.