Influence of Employee Empowerment on Employee Performance at Perseus Mining Ghana Limited.

Abstract

The study sets out to examine the effect of employee empowerment on the staff performance of Perseus Ghana Mining Limited at Ayanfuri in the Central Region of Ghana. The three main specific objectives were to examine the influence of training of employees on the staff performance, to assess the influence of employee involvement in decision making on the employee performance, and finally to determine the influence of autonomy of employees on the employee performance of Perseus Ghana Mining Limited at Ayanfuri in the Central Region of Ghana. The study employed a quantitative research approach and descriptive survey as the study design. The study was on the views of 130 employees from the study area with a self-administered questionnaire as the main research instrument. The results were analysed using descriptive statistics with the help of the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS 26.0 version) software. The major findings were that the higher the organisation adopted proper training, the more the performance increased, and as such helps improve the general working environment. It was also found that employee involvement in decision making has been used as an employee empowerment dimension and has proved to be an effective empowerment dimension. Finally, effective job autonomy channel was in place and it had a direct influence on the level of employee performance. Considering this, it was recommended that management should focus on increasing the utilisation of employee empowerment dimensions like training, employee involvement in decision making and job autonomy to increase employee performance.