The Sonagachi Project was initiated in Kolkata, India in 1992 as a STD/HIV intervention for sex workers. The project evolved to adopt strategies common to women's empowerment programs globally (i.e., community mobilization, rights-based framing, advocacy, micro-finance) to address common factors that support effective, evidence-based HIV/STD prevention. The Sonagachi model is now a broadly diff...

This empirical study explores the influence of four extrinsic rewards, namely relationships with supervisor, relationships with co-workers, job security and financial rewards on nurses’ psychological empowerment. The study encompasses 395 nurses from both Greek public and private hospitals. Regression analysis is used to test the research hypotheses. The results of the study have shown that all...

198 words) ERP assimilation involves both strategic levels and individual level. Focusing on either micro or a macro stance yields an incomplete understanding of behaviour occurring at either level. The main objective of this research is to bridge across different levels of analysis in understanding ERP assimilation. First built upon the existing experiences with ERP software application and pr...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the influence of empowering work conditions and workplace incivility on nurses' experiences of burnout and important nurse retention factors identified in the literature. BACKGROUND A major cause of turnover among nurses is related to unsatisfying workplaces. Recently, there have been numerous anecdotal reports of uncivil behaviour in health care setti...

Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can have dramatic impact on poverty alleviation for rural women and for achieving socio economic development goals. Rural women need to treat ICTs as an empowerment tool and a means to a living. The use of mobile communication devices and internet are changing the way agricultural activities are managed by farmers nowadays. Rural women...

BACKGROUND Today, many organizations have adopted some kind of empowerment initiative for at least part of their workforce. Over the last two decades, two complementary perspectives on empowerment at work have emerged: structural and psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment is a motivational construct manifested in four cognitions: meaning, competence, self-determination and impact....

Background  Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and continued breastfeeding up to 2 years or more is a desirable approach for infant’s nutrition. A mother's breastfeeding empowerment is considered an important factor in promoting breastfeeding and identifying its facilitating factors can contribute to the development of effective policies and intervention. This study with a qualita...

one of factors which distinguishes today’s organizations is having employees who are internally and psychologically empowered, so imcreasing it is an important program for all the pioneering organizations. in this research the effect of four-dimensional model of organizational justice - distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice and informational justice – on psychological ...

In the present article, we introduce a community empowerment perspective to understanding neighborhoods. A preponderance of literature exists on neighborhood risk factors for crime. Yet less is known about positive factors that make neighborhoods safe and desirable. We propose community empowerment as a conceptual foundation for understanding neighborhood factors that promote social processes, ...