While empowerment has been actively practised, the exact meaning of 'empowerment' or 'psychological emppowerment' does not seem to be well considered. We tried to make the meaning of empowerment clear by distinguishing it from similar words like authority delegation, motivation, self-efficacy, job enrichment, employee ownership, autonomy, self-determination, self-management, self-control, self-influence, self-leadership, high-involvement and participate management. Based on our reasoning, we concluded thaat empowerment is not just a fad, but really a unique concept representing a new mangerial approach and that the uniqueness denies substitution with any of the above nouns.