background and objectives:job burnout is a major source of healthcare human resources inefficiency with severe negative impact on patient care, physical-psychological health of staff, and healthcare costs. psychological empowerment is a relatively new concept showing promise in boosting different aspect of human resources management. in this study, we pursued the question of whether psychologic...

The purpose of this study was to explore Rwandan nursing clinical instructors' (CIs) experiences of structural and psychological empowerment. CIs play a vital role in students' development by facilitating learning in health care practice environments. Quality nursing education hinges on the CI's ability to enact a professional role. A descriptive qualitative method was used to obtain an underst...

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...

This paper reports a study designed to investigate the concept of User Empowerment in the context of Enterprise Systems (ES) across three hierarchical levels of management of a higher education organization in Australia. The study focuses on how user empowerment can impact the potential components of Enterprise System Success (ESS) and the employee’s immediate work environment. We have drawn fr...

Empowerment is fundamentally about people and groups gaining more control over their own affairs. Because the forces that prevent and enable such control are complex (both objective and subjective) and multilayered (micro-, meso-, and macrostructural), empowerment has been theorized as a multilevel construct that is concerned with both processes and outcomes and with both subjective experiences...

The issue of psychological empowerment in crowd events has important implications for both theory and practice. Theoretically, the issue throws light on both intergroup conflict and the nature and functions of social identity. Practically, empowerment in collective events can feed into societal change. The study of empowerment therefore tells us something about how the forces pressing for such ...

This article elucidates connections between two strategies of transnational social movements—external pressure and local mobilization—and two potential outcomes—paternalism and psychological empowerment. Application of this theoretical framework to the nascent Chinese labor movement indicates that an overreliance on an external-pressure approach results in paternalism, thereby precluding psycho...

This article examines the significance of the correlation between coach leadership behavior and players’ organizational citizenship behavior, and the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the process. A total of 73 professional handball players from five different teams assessed leadership style, psychological empowerment, and organizational citizenship behavior based on the scale adap...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment programs during pregnancy focus primarily on increasing women's health goals and psychological empowerment has been considered important in most issues related to pregnant mothers' mental health. Using path analysis, this study aims to examine the direct and indirect components of psychological empowerment of pregnant mothers. METHODS This model-testing study wa...

The Information and Communication Technologies usage among rural communities can be promoted through community telecentres. To date, there is a lack of adequate knowledge in terms of civic participation and empowerment that are related to ICT programs evaluations. This paper proposes a conceptual model for evaluating psychological empowerment of telecentres users based on review of literature. ...