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Employee empowerment is a well-known employee management style nowadays, while organizational agility is a newer methodology. This is a revolutionary concept in the oil palm plantation management sector. Employee empowerment is achieved by giving employees decision-making authority to meet organizational goals. Agility is viewed as a competitive advantage and is adopted to improve organizational management. This study aims to determine the factors that are influencing employee empowerment, to identify the relationship of employee empowerment on the organizational agility and to determine the dominant factor of employee empowerment that affect organizational agility in the oil palm sector. This study's questionnaire examines four aspects of employee empowerment: competence, meaning, effectiveness, and self-determination. The questionnaire received 53 responses from managers, assistant managers, supervisors, and workers. SPPS was used to evaluate the survey data. Results show that characteristics impacting employee empowerment are working independently and commitment. Then, through correlation analysis, it shows self-determination and competence have a significant relationship towards organizational agility. Dominant factors of employee empowerment are influenced by competence and self-determination, according to multiple linear regression analysis. Thus, creating organizational targets, recognition, providing information, and coaching can improve empowerment: competence, meaning, and organizational agility.
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Shuhaime, M. A. S., & Isa, N. (2023). Domination of Employee Empowerment Toward Organization Agility in Oil Palm Plantation Sector. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13(10), 723–730.
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