The Impact of Participative Decision-Making with Regards to Empowering Employees

Shared decision making: empowering the bedside nurse.

Shared decision making is a process that has empowered specialty nurses at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, to solve a practice concern. Staff nurses recognized a lack of concise, collated information available that described what nurses need to know when caring for patients receiving chemotherapy. Many aspects of the administration process were knowledge and experience based and not easily re...

Identifying Organizational Empowering Dimensions of Employees with a Psychological Approach

Background & Aims: Empowerment is the most important challenge for managers in this era. Because organizations are subject to rapid and unpredictable changes. Among the most important factors of these changes, we can mention the increasing global competition, the development and expansion of information technology, and changes in the characteristics and demands of customers. The change in the c...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Respiratory therapists' attitudes about participative decision making: relationship between managerial decision-making style and job satisfaction.

BACKGROUND Studies of non-health-care work environments indicate that non-managerial employee job satisfaction is higher in companies that use participative (as opposed to autocratic) decision making. It has not been determined whether managerial decision-making style influences job satisfaction among respiratory therapists (RTs) and which managerial decision-making style RTs prefer. METHODS ...

Participative Water Resource Allocation and Decision-making in Australia

Current decision-making practices used to determine water allocations between competing uses in Australia generally disregard the social, cultural and political impacts of these types of decisions and to a lesser extent the economics. Tokenistic community consultation, rather than meaningful and purposeful participation in the water allocation decision-making process, results in a lack of commu...