in recent decades, empowerment as delegation of power to someone has been used a mechanism to increase personal and work life quality of women. higher education and occupation are effective instruments for empowering women but the role of culture can't be denied in this relation. social norms can directly or indirectly limit women's empowerment. in this article the role of higher educ...

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...

This study aimed to measure the impact of employee empowerment on customer-oriented behavior in the Jordanian commercial banks. The study addressed two perspectives of empowerment (i.e., structural empowerment and psychological empowerment). The frontline employee’s perspective was used, since this position plays an excellent role in mediating the relationship between clients and service provid...

introduction: the quality of work life has an important role in increasing labor productivity and consequently the efficiency and effectiveness of large organizations. this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between empowerment (as the independent variables) and the quality of work life of employees (as the dependent variable). method:this study was conducted in a descriptive c...

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...

faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasing productivity and optimum use of their individual and group abilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. organizational culture is the main component of decision making in universities and one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e. meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). given the impo...

the identification and application of the effective factors for improving the efficiency of organization’s operations are the most important aspects of each organization. developmental approaches in human resource management are a typical example of these factors which clearly indicate the importance of human resource as the organization’s main investment and a vital competitive factor. the pre...

Most research to date has approached employee empowerment as an individual-level phenomenon. In this study we proposed a work-unit-level construct, empowerment climate, and tested a multiple-level model integrating macro and micro approaches to empowerment. Empowerment climate was shown to be empirically distinct from psychological empowerment and positively related to manager ratings of work-u...

Available online 23 November 2011 Drawing upon social learning and self-determination theories, we hypothesized and tested a chain mediating process linking empowerment to employee creativity. Based on data from 385 employees working with 104 supervisors in multiple organizations in China, we conducted cross-level path analyses and found that (1) structural empowerment partially mediated the re...