A study of employee empowerment and job performance among the banking employees in Manipur

According to Business dictionary, empowerment refers to a management practice of sharing information, rewards and power with employees so that they can take initiative and make decisions to solve problems and improve service and performance. On the other hand, job performance is the work related activities expected of an employee and how well those activities were executed. The study aims to investigate the relationship between employee empowerment and job performance in the banking sector in Manipur, India. Employee empowerment is widely viewed as a promising approach to improve job performance in workplace. It is a descriptive study with fifty samples chosen using stratified random sampling. The self-prepared questionnaire was self-administered to the respondents. The employees in banking sectors find that empowerment strongly influences their job performance and improves significantly. Employee empowerment can be seen as the basic component to increase job performance in the banking sector.