It's one of the six components of Shared Progress. It focuses on the Enterprise Agility Universal Outcomes (be seen, heard, empowered, and part of the group). This allows individuals to experience autonomy and a sense of shared ownership over outcomes. Empowerment amplifies motivation, creativity, and possibility by permitting employees to determine priorities and try new approaches based on their proximity to opportunities or challenges.

It leads to ideas or values that hierarchies alone could not achieve. Empowerment should also allow individuals to sense the markets at their discretion and possibly bet on the company’s present and future.

Workforce empowerment is part of the Shared Progress Framework in Enterprise Agility. For more detailed information about them, check Enterprise Agility Fundamentals, Chapter 3, page 148.