Background and Objectives: Quality services delivery in the health settings is contingent on hospital administrative staff organizational commitment. Inspired by previous research indicating the prominent role of psychological empowerment in organizational commitment, this study aimed to explore the relationship between the two variables in hospital administrative staff. Methods: A random sam...

In this cross-country study we drew on job demands-resources theory to investigate whether psychological empowerment mediates the positive association between structural and work engagement and, consequently, task performance intention quit. A total of 1033 employees working in service sector Spain (N = 515) United Kingdom 518) participated study. Multi-group equation modeling analyses revealed...

Patient empowerment is widely accepted as a process by which people are helped to use autonomous decision making in order to better self-manage their condition, gain control over their health and remain socially integrated [1]. Prevalent definitions of empowerment are therefore mainly based on the view that autonomy is recognised in people’s self-determination, and that empowerment is a procedu...

The empowerment of individuals has become commonplace in many organisational development and change initiatives. However, these initiatives tend to encapsulate the values of the societies where they were developed and such values are not universal. An analysis of a business process re-engineering effort in Hong Kong is conducted. It is found that the attempt to empower re-engineering team membe...

introduction: employee empowerment is a process that requires appropriate conditions in the organization. the application of information systems in the health sector as a pragmatic approach and critical element in empowering employees provides the possibility of enhancement of the capacities and development capabilities of human resources. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relati...