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...

The psychological empowerment construct has been studied thoroughly in the workplace context, but little research has been conducted on volunteer empowerment. Eight interviews were conducted with Christian church volunteers identified as displaying empowered behaviors based upon Spreitzer‟s (1995) construct. Four primary themes, make a difference, rewarding, lifestyle of service, and passion, a...

purpose: the purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between the organizational commitment and the psychological empowerment in the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: this study is an applied research on the librarians of ferdowsi university of mashhad. data were collected relying on allen and meyer (1990) organizational commitment questionnaire and spreitz...

0 rganizations are demanding more from their employees than ever before. Higher customer expectations, increased globalization, more sophisticated technologythese are a few of the conditions at work. It’s an environment where traditional commandand-control hierarchies are increasingly less appropriate. Instead, employees must learn to take initiative, be creative, and accept responsibility for ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the psychological empowerment factors (meaningfulness, competency, self-determination, impact and trust) and organizational entrepreneurship in staff of physical education general administration department of khorasan razavi. for this purpose, 61 staff members were selected as the sample of this study. the study was descriptive c...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among employees’ empowerment, organizational commitment and job commitment in physical education organization of tehran province. the statistical population included all personnel in physical education organization of tehran province out of which 150 subjects were selected through stratified random sampling. a) spreitzer's (1995) em...

a r t i c l e i n f o Management theories, especially those in the area of human resource management, are predominantly Western-centric in origin and in the empirical testing that underpins them. The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions of one such theory, employee empowerment, in an Asian context. Information gathered from an open ended questionnaire and focus groups provide an in-d...

The purpose of this study is to explore the mediating role psychological empowerment in linking relationship among workplace spirituality, OCB and burnout. convenience sampling method was employed collected data from a sample 362 employees working banking sector Pakistan by self-administered survey. Workplace Spirituality Scale (Ashmos & Duchon, 2000; Milliman, Andrew Jeffery, 2003), Organi...

BACKGROUND The current rise in employment is improving forecasts for the future supply of registered nurses; however sizeable shortages are still projected. With the intention of improving academic success in nursing students, related factors need to be better understood. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the correlational study was to describe the relationship between emotional intelligence, psychol...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between employees’ empowerment and organizational learning in physical education organization. the research used a descriptive correlation method. statistical population consisted of all employees in physical education organization (n=722) and based on cochran sampling method, 250 subjects were selected for the statistical sample. the ...