Empowering Disadvantaged Employees

Many organizations seek to unleash staff potential by empowering their employees. However, mainstream empowerment programs do not reflect the unique problems faced by disadvantaged employees, namely, people with disabilities, women, and ethnic minorities. As a result, the programs fail to offer solutions which can both facilitate the resolution of the problems and enable an organization to maximize the benefits of empowerment initiatives. Shows why employers need to adopt top‐up measures for disadvantaged employees, in addition to the programs for all employees. Discusses empowerment initiatives specifically for disadvantaged employees which some employers have integrated successfully into the central management role.