Empowerment - Advantages and Disadvantages

According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary empower is defined as "to give official authority or legal power to" therefore employee empowerment would be giving official authority and power to employees, or giving the employees responsibility for what they do. Employee empowerment, or just empowerment, has many positive and also many negative or controversial sides, throughout this paper I will discuss these points and discuss them in depth.
Empowerment is a trend that has been hitting companies since the 1990's. The movement had originally started in the 1980's when managers were encouraged to give their workers more involvement in work-related decisions but has now grown into its own controversial topic as 31% of companies define themselves as empowered.
Advantages
Many companies believe that being in an empowered company will motivate the worker. …