OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between psychological empowerment and readiness for organisational change among primary healthcare workers in Iran. METHODS This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study comprised 64 primary health workers in Noorabad, western Iran, and was conducted in 2012. A multi-stage cluster sampling was used for the study. Information was collected using two ...

psychological empowerment: a strategy for promotion of participatory decision-making, and organizational citizenship behavior (case study: urmia medical university)     hassani m [1] *, majidi j [2]     received: 21 aug, 2012 accepted: 21 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the present study surveys the relationships between participatory decision- making, organizational citizenship be...

Faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasing productivity and optimum use of their individual and group abilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. Organizational culture is the main component of decision making in universities and one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e. meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). Given the impo...

The goal of this study was to develop a gender-sensitive resilience scale for screening combat-support officers. This achieved by investigating the factor structure in both male and female personnel. Participants were 1467 personnel who underwent psychological evaluation at Israel Defense Force (IDF) Officer Selection Center (OSC) attended Training School (OTS). Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA...

Enhancing the occupational well-being of early childhood teachers is vital importance for stability teaching workforce and improvement educational quality, as well healthy development young children. This study surveyed 327 using Principal Transformational Leadership Scale, Early Childhood Teacher Occupational Well-being Psychological Empowerment Perceived Social Support Scale. The results are ...

abstract: existence of professional and skillful employees in organizations is vital for survival and business success in uncertain environment. such employees work beyond their official responsibility and help organizations to achieve their goals. there are several factors such as psychological empowerment that play a key role on the forming of this behavior. the main purpose of present resear...

OBJECTIVE To compare the empowerment and the quality of life of individuals before and after receiving the psychological services and support interventions. STUDY DESIGN This quasi-experimental research had two hypotheses: 1) the survivors gained empowerment, and 2) the survivors experienced improvement in their quality of life, after receiving the interventions. SETTING Krabi province of T...