BACKGROUND Research has confirmed a positive link between patient involvement in decision-making and improvements in health outcomes. The objective of this study was to examine the roles of psychological empowerment and health literacy on the elderly's willingness to engage in treatment decisions. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was completed by a randomly selected sample of Swiss a...

Background and Objectives: Despite increasing attention toward the employee empowerment, there is little data on cognitive and psychological processes increasing, predicting, and determining the employee empowerment and the organizational variables affecting this construct, particularly in the healthcare context. To help bridging this gap, this study examined the impact of transformational lead...

this manuscript illustrates how the human resource management concept of employee empowerment likely has benefits in both developed and developing economies. studies in the hospitality sector and the manufacturing sector in canada, india, and turkey show that, in general, empowering supervisory behaviors, such as transformational leadership, increase feelings of psychological empowerment of emp...

Today, more than 70 per cent of organizations have adopted some kind of empowerment initiative for at least part of their workforce (Lawler et al., 2001). To be successful in today’s global business environment, companies need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee, from front line workers to the top level managers in the executive suite. The best organizations accomplis...

While the link between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been established, the individual-level mechanisms underlying this relationship and its boundary conditions remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigate the salience of the mediating mechanisms of leader-member exchange (LMX) and psychological empowerment in explaining the process by which serv...

To date, the attitudes of civil servants in China have transformed from taking command and free from media or institutional oversight to being under the scrutiny of the media and receiving inspection from disciplinary inspection and supervision offices, and serving the public. In particular, police officers' job duties include the characteristics of high stress, high-pressure, and high-risk, wh...

Starting with a review of the literature and documents pertaining to health promotion in the developed countries, highlighting the Canadian output, the author reflects on the multiple meanings ascribed to the "empowerment" category/strategy. After a summary of the conceptual development of health promotion ideals, the paper analyzes the theoretical aspects of "empowerment", suggesting its class...

Recently, we have observed rapid growth of individual daily technologies such as microblogs, and the technology’s influence on people’s social life. To investigate such self-determined technology usage, we choose an empowerment perspective as our theoretical lens, because the empowerment concept highlights human beings’ proactive nature. We investigate a specific microblog usage, i.e. publicly ...