title: Empowerment as a leadership theory.
abstract: Leadership of today is quite different from that of Caesar, Plato, the ancient Greeks, or the ancient Egyptians. Today's leaders utilize power-sharing, trust, team-building, and empowerment. Methods to achieve empowerment include educating, leading, structuring, providing, mentoring, and actualizing. Empowerment requires change in leadership methods to be effective. One must be able to identify change and work with others for change. Through the leadership style of empowerment, vision provides a shared set of values with a customer focus. Successful organizations which practice empowerment delegate and expect people to initiate, create and to feel ownership. Nurses need to be involved in their organizations and utilize empowerment leadership to be successful leaders of the future. With empowered employees, the organization, the customer, and the employee are all winners.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Rajotte
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008611:Mentors; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D011209:Power, Psychological