Empowering human resources of organizations based on social investment strategies

Abstract

Employee empowerment is an essential tool of management that can be used to direct human resources to increase productivity. This article, with a practical approach toward the concept of employee's empowerment, is focused on investigation of the effective factors on empowerment. Employee's empowerment is one of the effective tools in increasing employee productivity and optimum use of their individual and collective capabilities and capacities in line with organizational goals. Nowadays, organizations affected by factors such as increase in global competition, sudden transformations, the need for quality and after-sales service, limited resources, and ... are under a lot of pressure. After years of experience, the whole world has come to the conclusion that if an organization wants to be at the cutting edge in its professional and financial affairs and does not left behind in competitive arena, should benefit creative and highly motivated manpower. Human resources make up the basis of real wealth of an organization. The concept of social capital is considered as a resource that individuals, groups and communities may use to achieve optimum results. Thus, social capital is the social relationships' heritage and facilitates collective action. In what follows, we will mention to the importance and necessity of employees empowerment in organizations and the achievements aroused out of empowerment in organizations and the barriers to implementing empowerment. Finally the concepts and factors of social capital, their role and effect on empowering human resources in line with organizational activities are analyzed.