Case Studies in Empowerment

Description: Training using case study simulations offers a unique format for supervisors to learn more about overcoming challenging obstacles in the implementation of empowerment within a work unit. Successful completion of the training will enable supervisors to identify attitudinal and behavioral barriers to empowerment in their work environment and to develop constructive solutions.

• Participants will be able to identify the following empowerment issues: employee readiness; situational risk; level of empowerment; inappropriate/appropriate supervisory action for case studies.
  

• Participants will understand the impact of their supervisory behavior and where necessary, make modifications to successfully promote and implement empowerment.
  

• Participants will be able to generalize principles of effective supervisory empowerment to their work settings.
  

• Participants will be able to distinguish between supervisory behavior which is empowering and that which is disempowering.