Importance Of Employee Empowerment

Nowadays, organizations are focusing on gaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace after the paradigm of globalization era has fetched hasty deviations and modifications, for both technological and environmental industries. Advanced machines and equipment, new technologies, effective marketing strategies, unique customer services, and other components represent the factors that build up for this advantage. Organizations are always advancing their systems, processes, and technologies to cope with the challenging existing environment. In addition, the dynamic contemporary environment is urging its organizations to synchronize their management techniques with these increasing problems.

Empowerment role is to improve the performance of the employees in the organization by making them more competent in their workplace. Empowering the human resources maximizes the resource itself and generates organizational commitment among them which is perceived as a way in differentiating one organization from another. Moreover, empowered workers feel more confident and self-reliant to influence their work environment by being more proactive and innovative. Allowing individuals to have both independence and feedback within their company makes the empowerment process successful. However, employee empowerment doesn’t mean that managers isolate themselves from their responsibilities but rather they create and foster an environment in which the employee's input is anticipated and cultivated. However, high levels of confidence might be taken too far ending up in crossing the line towards arrogance which makes it difficult to deal with such employees and take directions well. Operating in this kind of work environment takes its toll on employees and they once again become dissatisfied resulting in the decrease in their productivity levels.

1.2 Purpose of the

• Analyze the relationship between job autonomy, employee motivation, job enrichment and delegation with the organizational commitment.

• Evaluate the results and give recommendation to increase the level of employees’ commitment in the Lebanese banking sector.

1.3 Significance of the study

Employee empowerment is often a misunderstood concept in the workplace that few managers put into practice because they believe that this process will reduce their authority. In addition, researchers have discovered through studies that many managers don’t really recognize the significance of employee empowerment and its effect on the organizational commitment (Emerson, 2012).

Hence, the significance of this study is to detect if the core dimensions of employee empowerment have a significant effect on organizational commitment in the Lebanese banking sector. This study might be an area of interest for banks in ensuring employee performance since it will highlight the specific aspects of employee empowerment that will add value to employee