Role of leadership style and employees personal characteristics on employee empowerment

In recent years, the pace of organizational change has accelerated, the competitive pressure from outside the organization has intensified, and most organizations find themselves operating in more complex, unpredictable, and dynamic environments. Hence, in today's rapidly changing and very threatening environments, organizations find themselves always scrambling for the competitive advantage. They realize that they must continuously improve the way they organize and manage themselves to be successful and competitive. They understand that the organizational competitiveness will ultimately depend on their capability to configure people and design a system for optimal execution of strategy.