Empowerment will enhance organizational effectiveness under all the following conditions EXCEPT:.
a. systematic efforts to empower workers.
b. sincere efforts to spread power and autonomy to lower levels.
c. renewed concentration of authority in the hands of top managers.
d. commitment to maintain participation and empowerment.
e. increased commitment to training.

c. renewed concentration of authority in the hands of top managers

Explanation:

Empowerment can simply be explained as the authority given to someone to do something , meaning that the person has autonomy to do the thing.

It can further be explained in business term as the process of giving ideas, skills, authority and opportunity to the employees , in order to make them more productive.

In this case, when the employees are empowered ,it will help the top managers to be respected and regarded as the authority, and this will subsequently enhance or boost the organizational effectiveness.

Option c==> renewed concentration of authority in the hands of top managers.

Explanation:

Empowerment provides workers with access to learning and power. The options 'a', 'b' 'd' and 'e' are all going to enhance organizational effectiveness.

According to the third option that is to say option 'c' , ("renewed concentration of authority in the hands of top managers"), empowerments make sure that the workers of the organization or company have a say in the way decisions are make which means that the employees can question the top managers on the ways decisions are being made in the organization or company.

a punishment or the threat of punishment used to enforce conformity. enforcement of norms or shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. social control. not everyone internalizes all of society's norms, and some people must be motivated by self-fulfillment.

answer; i believe that the correct answer is (decreased)