by Tekleab, Amanuel G.^Sims, Henry P., Jr.^Yun, Seokhwa^ Tesluk, Paul E.^Cox, Jonathan Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies • Feb, 2008 • This study examines the effects of leaders' self-awareness of their own leadership on followers' satisfaction, self-leadership, and leader effectiveness. A leader's self-awareness was conceptualized as the degree of similarity between the leader's s...

The purpose of this study was to (a) identify potential benefits for students with disabilities taking part in a physical activity program with same-age typical peers on a Midwest university campus and (b) to determine if the program impacted the students with disabilities empowerment. Empowerment theory was used to determine how transition students' attitudes change over the course of the seme...

0749-5978/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.10.006 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of B Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Universi 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. van Dijke). We examined how procedural fairness interacts with empowering leadership to promote employee OCB. We focused on two core empowering ...

The authors present findings of 2nd year nursing students' (N = 352) perceptions of their clinical teachers' use of empowering teaching behaviours (ETB) and to highlight steps undertaken to establish psychometric properties of the Empowering Teaching Behaviours Questionnaire-Student (ETBQ-S). The authors identify a) the process involved in the adoption of the ETBQ-S, b) ETBQ-S validity procedur...

The aims of this study were to describe significant patient education sessions, and to explore nurses' empowering and traditional behavior in the patient education process of children and their families. The qualitative critical incident technique was used by interviewing 45 nurses in pediatric units. Data were analyzed using content analysis. Each starting point for patient education, educatio...

introduction: in-service training of nurses plays an indispensable role in improving the quality of inpatient care. need to enhance the effectiveness of in-service training of nurses is an inevitable requirement. this study attempted to design a new optimal model for in-service training of nurses. methods: this qualitative study was conducted in two stages during 2015-2016. in the first stage, ...

This study was conducted in 2016 aimed to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership, uncertainty avoidance, trust, and employee creativity with regard to interaction effects and mediating mechanism. The population consists of 205 employees from the Nomadic affairs of Fars Province. In accordance with the Cochran formula, the sample size of 134 was calculated that were participa...

Ever since the rise of online support groups it has been presumed that there is an empowering effect from patients' participating in these groups, despite a lack of evidence to back up this assumption. In this study we explored if, and in which ways, patients feel empowered by participation. Additionally, we studied which empowering and disempowering processes occur as a result of taking part i...

background: nowadays, the concept of family planning has been detached from the population control and it is expressed as an essential element in women’s reproductive rights, empowering them and promoting their status in society. family planning services have an important role in fertility decisions using contraception methods in women. this study was carried out to explore the experience of wo...