Growing evidence supports the inclusion of patient empowerment as a key ingredient of care for patients with chronic conditions. In recent years, several studies based on patient empowerment, have been carried out in different European countries in the context of general practice and primary care to improve management of chronic diseases. These studies have shown good results of the care model,...

The Workforce Scheduling Problem (WSP) concerns the scheduling of a multi-skilled workforce to geographically dispersed tasks. An effective solution to the problem is critical to companies’ performance and success. Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of enhancing employee empowerment and involvement in decision making. However, traditional approaches implemented to t...

Original scientific paper The current study explores the influence of perceived organizational support, psychological empowerment, and organizational learning on job performance in the bank industry. A sample of 280 employees was randomly selected from a pool of Iranian banks’ employees. The data were collected by the questionnaire and analysed using the structural equation model. The results s...

In Bangladesh the latest BDHS, 2004 finds that only twenty percent women work for cash. Among them only 48 percent are able to spend their money on their own, the rest are dependant upon spouses or other family members to take joint decisions on spending. Defining this variable as a measure of empowerment, this analysis investigates correlates of empowerment using logistic regression analysis. ...

Organizations are increasingly exploring the business opportunities brought about by social media applications. The ubiquitous access to these applications or their mobile versions (i.e., mobile apps) through smart phones makes them powerful. Understanding how individuals use social media applications to interact and to share information for decision making will help organizations better levera...

A key aspect of managing modern organizations is the use of intranet technology as a fundamental element of IS infrastructures. An intranet is reported to increase in sophistication and in complexity as it evolves. This evolution of application leads to an increasing need for control over intranet use, development, and management. However, this is a rather contentious issue, as an intranet is d...

In this paper, we develop and present a contingency model of leadership and psychological empowerment that specifies the circumstances and situations under which follower self-leadership should be encouraged. The model suggests that certain key contingency factors, including follower development, situational urgency and task structure, dictate which of several leadership approaches, including d...