We are investigating ways to empower Sri Lankan farmers through a technology-based intervention to enhance their livelihood activities. Using empowerment theory and related concepts, we have created a conceptual model of psychological empowerment and identified a person’s level of empowerment as a reflection of their sense of control, self-efficacy, competence and motivation. We interviewed 50 ...

Object oriented methods started with the vision of making computer power available to all users. This paper introduces an approach in which again malleable objects are the key element of an empowerment strategy. The goal is to offer a cooperation support to virtual teams, which is adaptable to evolving structure and organization of the cooperative work. In the described approach, the common inf...

As medical information becomes increasingly available and individuals take a more active role in managing their personal health, it is essential for scholars to better understand the general public's information-seeking behavior. The study reported here explores the use of the World Wide Web to seek health information in a contemporary information-media environment. Drawing from uses and gratif...

background: the ultimate goal of diabetes control is hba 1c improvement. the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of empowerment model on hba 1c among adolescents with type 1 diabetes. methods: the present semi-experimental study was carried out on some 47 diabetic adolescents in order to investigate the effect of an educational program based on the empowerment model on hba 1c among a...

Employee empowerment theory and research lacks a single, unifying model capable of integrating the multiple levels of activity and complex relationships that characterize the empowerment process. The model proposed in this paper describes the empowerment process from intervention design to subsequent employee behavior. The dynamics of the empowerment process are presented as reflecting the inte...

Organizational initiatives to strengthen customer orientation among front-line service workers abound, and have led many commentators to speak of the re-constitution of service work. These interventions rest on managers’ assumptions about what engenders the desired customer-oriented behaviours among employees. We evaluate those assumptions in the context of a major change initiative in a superm...

the purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. this paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. first by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, n...

employee empowerment is a new approach of internal motivation of job means to free internal energy of employee and also provides opportunities for them to actualize their talent, abilities and competencies. current research implemented within models of votten and kamron that implicate multi-dimensions of empowerment have four dimensions of feeling competent, feeling being meaningful, self-deter...