Editing Empowerment (section)

===Implications for company culture===
Empowerment of employees requires a culture of trust in the organization and an appropriate information and communication system. The aim of these activities is to save control costs, that become redundant when employees act independently and in a self-motivated fashion. 
In the book ''Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute'', the authors illustrate three keys that organizations can use to open the knowledge, experience, and motivation power that people already have.<ref name=blanchard/> The three keys that managers must use to empower their employees are:
# [[information sharing|Share information]] with everyone
# Create [[autonomy]] through boundaries
# Replace the old hierarchy with [[Team#Self-directing or self-designing teams|self-directed work teams]]

According to Stewart, in order to guarantee a successful work environment, managers need to exercise the "right kind of [[authority]]" (p.&nbsp;6).  To summarize, "empowerment is simply the effective use of a manager’s authority", and subsequently, it is a productive way to maximize all-around work [[efficiency]].<ref>Stewart, Aileen Mitchell. ''Empowering People'' (Institute of Management). Pitman. London: Financial Times Management, 1994.</ref>

These keys are hard to put into place and it is a journey to achieve empowerment in the workplace. It is important to [[workplace training|train]] employees and makes sure they have trust in what empowerment will bring to a company.<ref name=blanchard>{{cite book|author1=Blanchard, Kenneth H.|author2=John P. Carlos|author3=Alan Randolph|title=Empowerment Takes More than a Minute|url=https://archive.org/details/empowermenttakes00blan|url-access=registration|publisher=San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler|year=1996|isbn=9781881052838}}</ref>

The implementation of the concept of empowerment in management has also been criticized for failing to live up to its claims.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://hbr.org/2015/05/6-myths-about-empowering-employees|title=6 Myths About Empowering Employees |journal=Harvard Business Review |publisher=hbr.org |date= 2015-05-27|access-date=2015-09-17|last1=Marquet |first1=David }}</ref>