Question 1 Visualize yourself as an executive at Target. Develop a policy to empower customer service desk associates to resolve customer problems, including the limits to their empowerment Answer Being a target customer service desk associate, empowering is very important. The concept of empowerment emphasizes the ability to make things happen. Empowerment will be developed by focusing on identifying the needs of the consumers and catering to the needs and demand of the consumers across the nation. Power is still relational, but in terms of problems and opportunities, not individuals. Cutting through all the corporate rhetoric on empowerment is quite difficult, since the term has become quite fashionable in management circles. Each individual empowerment attempt needs to be examined in light of how power in the organization will be changed. When embarking on an empowerment program, management needs to identify the differences and move systematically so as to expand it. All too often, management assumes that its directive for empowerment will be followed management may fail to show precisely how empowerment will benefit the individuals involved, however. This is the most difficult task for managers and a difficult challenge for employees, for it often changes the dynamic between supervisors and