The empowerment of individuals has become commonplace in many organisational development and change initiatives. However, these initiatives tend to encapsulate the values of the societies where they were developed and such values are not universal. An analysis of a business process re-engineering effort in Hong Kong is conducted. It is found that the attempt to empower re-engineering team membe...

introduction: employee empowerment is a process that requires appropriate conditions in the organization. the application of information systems in the health sector as a pragmatic approach and critical element in empowering employees provides the possibility of enhancement of the capacities and development capabilities of human resources. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relati...

BACKGROUND Research has confirmed a positive link between patient involvement in decision-making and improvements in health outcomes. The objective of this study was to examine the roles of psychological empowerment and health literacy on the elderly's willingness to engage in treatment decisions. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was completed by a randomly selected sample of Swiss a...

Background and Objectives: Despite increasing attention toward the employee empowerment, there is little data on cognitive and psychological processes increasing, predicting, and determining the employee empowerment and the organizational variables affecting this construct, particularly in the healthcare context. To help bridging this gap, this study examined the impact of transformational lead...

this manuscript illustrates how the human resource management concept of employee empowerment likely has benefits in both developed and developing economies. studies in the hospitality sector and the manufacturing sector in canada, india, and turkey show that, in general, empowering supervisory behaviors, such as transformational leadership, increase feelings of psychological empowerment of emp...