Çalışanların güçlendirilmesi, işletmeler ve yöneticiler için insan unsurunun değerini artıran uygulamaları kapsamaktadır. Nitelikli çalışanların işletme içindeki varlığı insan kaynağının çok önemli hale geldiği iş dünyasında ve yaşanan rekabet savaşlarında daha iyi anlaşılmaktadır. Rekabette bir adım önde olmak isteyen yöneticiler güçlendirmeyi sahiplenmeli ve çalışanlarını güçlü kılmanın yollarını aramalıdırlar.

Yönetim uygulamaları insan odaklı olduğu müddetçe işletme içindeki karşılıklı güç ilişkilerinde çalışanların güçlendiği görülecektir. Güçlenen çalışanın işini severek yapması, kişisel gelişimini ilerletmesi, karar alma süreçlerine aktif katılım göstermesi, işletme için daha etkin ve verimli çalışması güçlendirmenin beklenen sonuçları arasında yer almaktadır.

Elinizdeki bu kitap güçlendirmeyi yönetsel açılardan inceleyerek çalışanlara, yöneticilere ve işletme sahiplerine güçlendirmeyi tanıtma ve gücün çalışanlarla paylaşılmasıyla ilgili bilgiler sunmaktadır.

Globalization and related technological developments have increased competition and put organizations in a struggle to survive in an extremely difficult market condition. Organizations adopt their technologies and infrastructures to today’s conditions to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and maintain their existence. However, all these efforts of organizations are easily imitated by rival companies and may cause the loss of competitive advantage.

The resource-based view provides additional information that strategic human resource is the scarce, valuable, inimitable and non-substitutable resources of organizations, thus enabling them to gain a competitive advantage. According to this view, the competitive advantage of the organization is achieved by combining valuable internal resources. Nowadays, sustainable competitive advantage is provided not by environmental factors or physical capital but by human capital (employees) efficiency. In this context, the attitudes and behaviors of employees who make up human resources are important for their organizational success. Many studies emphasize that positive attitudes and behaviors (e.g. innovative work behavior, work engagement, job satisfaction) in employees have important contributions to the success of the organization, while similarly negative attitudes and behaviors (e.g. organizational silence, turnover intention) are one of the main reasons for the failure of the organization.

In our book, literature has been created on the definition, antecedents, and organizational results of new and current concepts that are newly conceptualized in the literature and are still in their infancy. It is considered that this cumulative literature within the book will be a source for future studies on these subjects and will provide important insights for practitioners.

Underlying all these questions of right is the question how they are to be secured and maintained. By enforcing the responsibility of the executive and legislature to the community as a whole? Such is the general answer, and it indicates one of the lines of connection between the general theory of liberty and the doctrine of universal suffrage and the sovereignty of the people. The answer, however, does not meet all the possibilities of the case. The people as a whole might be careless of their rights and incapable of managing them. They might be set on the conquest of others, the expropriation of the rich, or on any form of collective tyranny or folly. It is perfectly possible that from the point of view of general liberty and social progress a limited franchise might give better results than one that is more extended. Even in this country it is a tenable view that the extension of the suffrage in 1884 tended for some years to arrest the development of liberty in various directions. On what theory does the principle of popular sovereignty rest, and within what limits does it hold good? Is it a part of the general principles of liberty and equality, or are other ideas involved? These are among the questions which we shall have to examine.

1. T. HOBHOUSE – 1911