Importance of managerial competencies and management in empowerment

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Managerial competencies; Management; Empowerment.

ENThe article presents an analysis of the importance of managerial competencies and management in empowerment; it analyses the domain and typology of the concept of a managerial competence – empowerment and includes a quantitative survey on the core managerial competence and management in empowerment in the organization. The research has shown that empowerment is one of the most recent managerial competencies, and the role of leaders in empowerment is obvious. The respondents emphasised the importance of the leader’s behaviour as well as of the prevailing management style in the organization. The research has shown that the respondents only partly understand the notion of empowerment and its difference from motivation. According to the respondents, empowerment is one of the core competencies in today’s context of the leader’s management role when striving for successful performance results. According to the respondents, the charismatic and cooperative management styles are favourable for empowering. To attain efficacy in empowerment of human resources, further fostering of employees and leaders should be considered as an appropriate instrument along with implementation of certain measures. [From the publication]