In this paper, we develop and present a contingency model of leadership and psychological empowerment that specifies the circumstances and situations under which follower self-leadership should be encouraged. The model suggests that certain key contingency factors, including follower development, situational urgency and task structure, dictate which of several leadership approaches, including d...

In the competitive global marketplace, it is becoming important for organizations to empower employees productivity reasons. One of organizational empowerment models with greater support and consistency in various studies which has been used Spreitzer's Model Psychological Empowerment Workplace, published 1995. The model composed four dimensions that allow measurement components meaning, compet...

This study was aimed at investigating the impact of organizational factors, leadership style, reward system and job design on psychological empowerment and its dimensions. This study was also aimed at measuring the level of employees' psychological empowerment. Applied research method was survey-correlation using questionnaire as the measurement tool. Statistical population included all employe...

a comparative survey on effects of face to face and distanced short term training courses on staff’s psychological empowerment nastiezaie n* , hezare mogadam m received: 16 july, 2010 accepted: 25 oct, 2010 abstract background & aims: any organization tries to revitalize its staff by preparing face to face and distanced short term training courses. thus, the present study aimed to compare the e...

Virtual advisory services are very important tools for the psychological self-help domain. It is particularly valuable for emergency rescuers in relieving their psychological distress given the high-stress nature of their occupation. To investigate optimal design strategies for an effective virtual advisory service to empower emergency rescuers, this article explores how virtual advisor identit...

Payments for ecosystem services programs have become common tools but most have failed to achieve wide-ranging conservation outcomes. The capacity for scale and impact increases when PES programs are designed through the lens of the potential participants, yet this has received little attention in research or practice. Our work with small-scale marine fisheries integrates the social science of ...

My purpose in writing this piece is to reflect upon a series of conversations in which I participated on the subject of empowerment over the past year. I believe that empowerment is key to innovation. For me, the essential aspect of the paper is my personal attempt to sort out why it is that employers, service providers and governments say they want to but do not reliably create empowerment in ...

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...