EMPOWERMENT AND CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Applicable competitive strategies? (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The ways of managing people have changed since Taylor's scientific management and Fayol's studies, with personnel development being one of the main concerns of the HR sectors today, as well as the need for innovation, agility and obtaining competitive advantage are the main objectives of contemporary organizations. As a result, methodologies such as empowerment and corporate entrepreneurship have been referenced again in recent years. While the corporate entrepreneur is the professional who works in an existing company but who possesses entrepreneurial skills (such as observing opportunities and ideas collected for innovation) and applies them in ways that benefit the organization, the empowered worker assumes functions and decisions that would previously be responsibility of higher hierarchical positions, aiming precisely at agility and innovation. When verifying the characteristics of each methodology, it is understood that its implementation depends on a profound business restructuring, involving from the strategic planning of the organization to even the design of positions and salaries, in order to obtain an environment conducive to innovation and with appreciation of the worker. But there is also a need for investments, especially financial ones, for its correct adoption, and knowing that the biggest barrier to innovation in companies involves economic and financial issues, this can and has been an obstacle to actions of empowerment and corporate entrepreneurship.