Employee empowerment methods and an application in honda Turkey

Nowadays, organizations need modern management approaches due to reasons such as increasing globalism and customer expectations, technological developments and changing personnel structure. Traditional management techniques are insufficient in the current business environments. Instead of using these traditional techniques, organizations attempt to develop ?human? factor by training employees, providing participation and encouraging to take responsibility. At this point, the empowerment concept occurs. Although the employee empowerment provides lots of benefits to organizations, it is faced by some problems in practice. The reason is that employee empowerment is not understood well enough. The purpose of this study is to propose the meaning, methods, benefits and problems of the employee empowerment into concern.