TY - BOOK AU - Kinlaw,Dennis C. TI - The practice of empowerment: making the most of human competence SN - 0566075709 AV - HD59.5 .K56 1995 U1 - 658.3/14 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Aldershot, England, Brookfield, Vt., USA PB - Gower KW - Employee empowerment N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index; What empowerment is not; the empowerment process; managing the empowerment process; the meaning of empowerment; the payoffs of empowerment; targets for empowerment; strategies for empowerment; controls for empowerment; new roles and functions; putting it all together N2 - Asserts that empowerment is a way of improving organizational performance by making the most competent people the most influential most of the time. This book provides a model for achieving this objective and draws on examples and case studies from successful companies as illustration ER -