EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY: A STUDY OF AIICO INSURANCE PLC NIGERIA

Empowerment provides competitiveness, better service provision, increased productivity, as it ensures work alignment of an employee towards organizational goals. As organizations have to be prepared in hiring qualified and capable workers in order to be up-to-date in this age of competitiveness in business as well as lead productivity especially in insurance firms, empowered work is recommendable since it encourages trust, attachment, as well as enhanced performance as compared with empowering one’s workers. Empowerment of employee has remained one of the most potent ingredients in organizational effectiveness as it aims towards further motivation, engagement, as well as productivity in general through provision of freedom, power of decisionmaking, as well as work ownership among employees. Employee Empowerment is further giving freedom towards workers' demonstration of aptness as well as entrepreneurship. This research is useful as it cross-tests empirical relationships between empowerment among other factors. It provides insightful contributions towards businesses in need of ways of maximizing workforce potential as well as ways of succeeding in an ever-changing market. There is theory, application, as well as policy contribution of this research. There is theory contribution of this research in employee empowerment literature through using already developed conceptual schemes such as Psychological Empowerment Theory (Spreitzer, 2021) as well as