The role of the empowerment of the employees in preventing the managers' nepotistic attitudes in organisations: A field research about rail transportation in Istanbul

Empowerment has been handled by the two perspectives complement each other in the literature in the past 20 years. The first approach that is more classic expression of the vision is social-structural approach. Theother is psychological empowerment approach. The conditions that is necessary for employees to feel empowerment themselves, still not provide the possibility of the empowerment. It has caused the studies that other approaches of the empowerment to be directed to wards Psychological empowerment. Therefore, the empowerment of the thesis work was dealt with four subscales. These are delegation of authority, participation in management, the Business development and motivation. Nepotism is one of the major problems encountered both of in Business organizations and in public organizations. Subject to favoritism in nepotism is kindredship. As employement use their kindredship instead of their own efforts and abilities in order to come to specific tasks and change status in business life, leads to a weakness on theirpart. The purpose of strengthening the general sense, the organization's mission, vision and strategy is to provide the framework for personal achievement. But in this study; impact of the empowerment of the employees on the attitude of managers as nepotism are being investigated. The relationship between the nepotism and empowerment of the employee was not reviewed in the literature. Therefore, the aim is to create awareness and show the way to the companies with this study. According to the results, especially appreciate the employees for their success or reward employees and work to keep the motivation contributes to empower employees. Therefore, it help prevent the attitudes of the managers as nepotism.