Empowerment at Workplace: A Perception of Women Employees from the IT Sector
Keywords:
Empowerment, Implementation, LeadershipAbstract
For long the society has been discussing about empowerment of women. Empowerment, in it’s truest sense refers to the right and ability to make one’s own decisions and choices, be it in one’s personal or professional life. All the organisations nowadays claim to have women friendly policies but it’s the right implementation of those policies and programmes which makes all the difference. The objective of this paper was to analyse the perception of women employees working in the IT sector about their empowerment at workplace. The findings suggested that though the mindset in the society is changing towards favouring and supporting women, still a lot needs to be done in terms of trusting women with leadership positions and taking their career progression seriously to translate idealistic theories about empowerment into practice.
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