The purpose of this study was to examine empowerment, job satisfaction levels, and relationships among 139 associate degree nursing educators.The Conditions of Work Effectiveness II, Psychological Empowerment Scale, and Job Diagnostic Survey were used. Findings indicated that the majority of educators were satisfied with their jobs as nursing faculty and felt empowered in their workplaces. Psyc...

Civility constitutes an important part of the organizational climate perceived by employees. Also structural and psychological empowerment lead to positive outcomes for work environments, leading to positive outcomes such as increased organizational commitment for health care workers, especially newly graduated nurses. The aim of this study to determine effect of workplace civility climate, str...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study is aimed at describing and investigating empowerment and its relationships with level of engagement in daily activities and community life, experienced stigma, psychopathology, and quality of life among people with mental illness entering supported employment. METHOD The following scales were administered to 120 persons: Empowerment Scale, Profiles of Occ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Parents' empowerment is advocated to promote and preserve an informed and autonomous decision regarding their children' immunization. The scope of this study is to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure parents' psychological empowerment in their children's vaccination decision and propose a context-specific definition of this construct....

A longitudinal predictive design was used to test a model linking changes in structural and psychological empowerment to changes in job satisfaction. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed a good fit of the data from 185 randomly selected staff nurses to the hypothesized model. Changes in perceived structural empowerment had direct effects on changes in psychological empowerment and job...

BACKGROUND As the core of health promotion, proper assessment of empowerment is a base for planning for a process that increases people's control on their decisions, lifestyle, and effective activities for their health. OBJECTIVE To design and develop a special tool to assess the empowerment of NGO women in Iran. METHODS This successive exploratory study of combinational type was conducted ...

The purpose of this research was designed to investigate the impact of e-Agriculture on farmers of Bangladesh. Empowerment is stratified as economic, family and social, political, knowledge and psychological empowerment. Data were collected in Bhatbour Block of Dhighi union under Sadar Upazila of Minikganj District. Data were collected in two phases from the same group of respondents (in August...

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 em...