Research on employee empowerment practices and the impact on employee satisfaction, innovation and productivity in education

Abstract

Nowadays after worldwide economic crisis a lot of things change in governments, companies and organizations. Challenges in the workplaces for all employees become more and more predicted. Employees face more complicate and demanding situations than ever before. Cyprus has been affected a lot from this economic crisis, unfortunately with all the bad consequences that follows this situation. For example, unemployment, elimination of salaries, minimization of the benefits that employers were given to their personnel, overworks for the permanent staff and a lot more. The entire above situation was the begging of starting this research about the empowering practices and how those affect job satisfaction of employees, productivity and innovation. More specific this research took place in Cypriot schools and how the above aspects affect teachers in High Schools and Lyceums.