A systematic review of employee empowerment in the indian industry: Case study of steel unit

Employee empowerment is an important organizational issue. Empowered employees with new ideas and innovative attributes may increase their ability to respond more effectively to face extensive changes in current Indian steel industry work environments. In the current era of increased competition, organisations leverage empowerment as a HRM strategy to gain competitive advantage. The present study addresses the empowerment practice in the Indian steel industry in general, and the Steel authority of India ltd, (SAIL) in particular, more specifically the Rourkela steel plant, Rourkela, Orissa. RSP-SAIL adopts Empowerment as a HRM strategy through Formal, Quasi-formal and Informal forums. These forums allow people to participate and involve in various decision making process like Quality Circles (Shopfloor Improvement Groups) Activities, Suggestion schemes (Surjani) etc. These forums allow people to participate and involve in various decision making process. An attempt is also made to examine the available empirical works to understand the instruments for applying empowerment in practice.