Empowerment as a management tool.

Organizations have seen the need to apply a new management seen from new technological approaches due to the variety of paradigmatic changes and increasing competition have revolutionized organizations and therefore the people involved in them, forcing them to adopt new philosophies, tools, strategies and techniques. These trends have enabled large cooperatives to respond effectively and in a timely manner to the demands of the external customer.

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However, in order to achieve results through these trends, it is evident to count on leaders to achieve goals, motivate personnel to delegate functions and form work teams to lead the change towards the permanent transformation of the business environment. The old way of management that controls the steps of employees is considered obsolete both from the point of view of productivity and motivation of employees so they do not have the opportunity to manifest their skills and abilities.

Due to this old way of management, new organizational trends are applied today. Empowerment is a new concept that many companies have acquired. Empowerment consists of enabling and empowering to give power and authority to the employee, so employees will have power and authority to make a decision about their work without requiring constant permission to act, this means a loss of authority in senior management. The participation of all workers in the process of continuous improvement allows any institution to succeed.

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That is why today the incredible growth of organizational competition coupled with the increasingly demanding consumer demand for quality, flexibility and low costs have put not only organizations as such but also their staff in a state of alert, that is why it has been suggested to apply new tools to integrate all resources: capital, technological and human resources so that in this way through an effective and efficient communication objectives can be achieved.

One of the strategies to be used to carry out this objective is empowerment since through this instrument the benefits obtained from technology and information are achieved, in turn both the members of the organization and the work teams will have full access and use of critical information, they will have the technology, skills, responsibility and authority to carry out this business.