The purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of social structural characteristics on employee empowerment and whether proactive personality plays a role in moderating the above stated relationship among managers in Malaysia. Hierarchical regression analyses of 584 responses revealed that social structural characteristics of self-esteem, power distribution, information sharing, kno...

This study was aimed at investigating the impact of organizational factors, leadership style, reward system and job design on psychological empowerment and its dimensions. This study was also aimed at measuring the level of employees' psychological empowerment. Applied research method was survey-correlation using questionnaire as the measurement tool. Statistical population included all employe...

This article explores the experiences of two organizations, one nonprofit and the other forprofit, seeking to create a culture of empowerment. Both organizations make a strong start and achieve significant change that is reflected in qualitative observations, quantitative measures of empowerment, and organizational performance results. The for-profit organization manages to sustain ongoing chan...

These articles represent a convergence o f community research on participation with theoretical developments on empowerment. As a group, the papers extend conceptual models o f empowerment and participation in a variety o f ways by identifying indivMual and community perceptions, elements o f the physical and social climate, and organizational characteristics as areas o f study that broaden and...

The importance of community empowerment has been strongly emphasized in health promotion publications in Western societies. Only a few studies exist to highlight the empowerment processes in countries in transition in Eastern Europe. A multi-stage study was designed to develop a context-specific survey instrument appropriate for evaluating the changes in the community empowerment process within...

In today’s work environment employees face many problems such as distrust, disempowerment, poor leadership and lack of support from the organization, the consequence of these factors is low commitment of employees towards their organization. Therefore, the basic objective of this paper is to examine the relationship of perceived organizational support, empowerment, perceived leadership behavior...