Background: Empowerment process as a motivational construct consists of enabling staff members and is considered as a basic factor for management and organizational effectiveness. Several studies have found associations between empowerment and various organizational outcomes such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job burnout and job autonomy. This article attempts to elucidate the empowerment process and its importance in the field of nursing and nursing management. Theoretically, it is based on Kanter’s theory of organizational empowerment and Spreitzer’s theory of psychological empowerment.
 
Material and Methods: Different studies have shown that employees can be empowered if they gain access to information, support, resources, and the opportunity to learn and grow in their work setting so that they will be able to accomplish organizational goals. Access to these empowering structures is facilitated by leadership behaviors such as enhancing the meaningfulness of work, facilitating goals, encouraging self-confidence, and providing autonomy from bureaucratic constraints. Also, factors such as authoritarian leadership styles that encourage dependency and submissive behaviors, and jobs with little challenge or unrealistic goals lead to diminishing self-efficacy and hinder the empowerment of nurses.
 Conclusion: Taking the importance of empowerment into account, nursing managers can create empowering work structures to promote empowering factors, eliminate the situations that foster powerlessness, and use strategies to motivate nursing staff to accomplish their tasks. Consequently, employees will be more productive and effective in meeting organizational goals, and the quality of care will be promoted as well.