Empowerment of Organization Members
Diane Tracy, a New York management consultant, suggests a new concept of power in her bestselling book, The Power Pyramid: How to Get Power by Giving It Away (1990). The concept has been referred to in the literature as “empowerment.” The new advice is that you can achieve ultimate power by giving it to the people who work for you. Tracy says that power operates under the same principle as love: The more you give to others, the more you receive in return. Also, she suggests that leaders can maximize their own power and their opportunities for success by enabling the employees they supervise also to achieve their own sense of power and success (Tracy, 2001).