Faculty Empowerment Strategies in Higher Education Institutions

The cycle of activities starting with planning of human resources, recruitment, performance
appraisal and professional development programmes, feedback and analysis all ensure that they
are utilized to develop strategies to upgrade the professional competence of the staff through
various mechanisms evolved. In higher education institutions efforts are continuously made to
enhance the professional development of teaching and nonteaching staff, through strategies for
empowerment includes training, re-training and motivating the employees for the roles and
responsibility they perform. It is necessary to have a performance appraisal system
comprehensive enough to ensure that information on multiple activities is appropriately captured
and considered for better appraisal. The outcome of the review of the performance appraisal is
the development of efficiency and transparency in fulfilling the aspirations of the stakeholders and
greater commitment to teaching-learning process. In this paper, we have identified various
faculty empowerment strategies to be adopted for future quality improvement in higher
education institutions in the light of a comprehensive performance management system based on
360º appraisal.