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Describe at least two ways to show how the empowerment of employees by organizations can help increase productivity. Please support your answers with quotes from the external source.

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Employee empowerment aims at providing greater voice

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Employee empowerment aims at providing greater voice to employees in work related decisions. It can range from providing decisions to exercising veto over management decisions.

"What is often called empowerment is really just taking off the chains and letting people loose. Credible leaders in this sense are liberators."

-- James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, in Credibility.

"We cannot work for others without working for ourselves."

--J. J. ...

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