... Drawing on a sample of 561 employees working across 62 bank branches in China, the authors test four hypotheses: (1) HPWS is positively related to social climate; (2) social climate mediates the relationship between HPWS and social identification; (3) psychological empowerment mediates the relationship...

... of the construct to address the lack of conceptual clarity. Further, with respect to concerns regarding operationalization, the study does an exploratory evaluation of reconceptualized TFL's relationship with psychological empowerment, a construct through which TFL mostly has its beneficial outcomes. Design...

...Alper Ertürk; Taner Albayrak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanism through which perceived empowerment practices in a firm influence employees’ organizational identification. Specifically, the authors posit the mediating role of leader‒member exchange (LMX...

...Carla Maria Freitas da Costa Freire; Ricardo Manuel Machado Azevedo Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of workplace empowerment and staff nurses’ perceptions of trustworthiness in their supervisor as determinators of organizational commitment. Design/methodology...

...Koen Dewettinck; Maaike van Ameijde Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between leadership empowerment behaviour (LEB), employee psychological empowerment and employee attitudes (affective commitment and job satisfaction) and behavioural intentions (intention to stay...

...Kevin Baird; Haiyin Wang Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the extent of employee empowerment within Australian manufacturing business units using an adapted version of the Pardo del Val and Lloyd instrument. The paper also examines the influence of organizational (business unit size...

... Mentoring Job evaluation Empowerment Following from this, the purpose of the study is to understand the impact that the schemes have had on the beneficiaries and the process by which this impact takes place. Our theoretical understanding is influenced by the interplay between agency and structure...

... in the supervisor and psychological empowerment) to engage in citizenship behaviors. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a matched sample of 183 Hong Kong investment‐banking personnel and their supervisors. Multiple regression was used to test direct and mediating effects. Findings Analyses...

...Richard Cooney This paper explores the theoretical implications of empowered self‐management as a teamwork design concept. It explores the multiple definitions of empowerment and self‐management that have been used in the design of work teams and it attempts to locate empowered self‐management...

...: Using Stories and Metaphors with Individuals and Small Groups . London : Kogan Page   2001 . 198 pp. , ISBN: 0749435216 (pbk) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Storytelling Coaching Empowerment Problem‐solving Self‐esteem Re‐framing “Are you a storyteller...

... that are conceptually related to and affect an employee's perception of empowerment. By quantifying the environmental factors that facilitate empowerment through a valid and reliable scale human resource departments will be provided with information that will suggest environmental changes they can implement to improve...

... Employees Empowerment Involvement Job satisfaction Stock ownership Previous research indicates that ESOPs that provide the instrumental and extrinsic rewards absent in the TWA ESOP have successfully created employee satisfaction with the ESOP and improved job satisfaction. ESOP participants...

...Marc Siegall; Susan Gardner This paper examines the relationships between four contextual factors related to empowerment (communication with supervisor, general relations with company, teamwork, and concern for performance) and the four components of psychological empowerment (meaning, impact, self...

...Conrad Lashley Suggestions for improvements in service quality in hospitality operations frequently advocate the use of empowerment as a strategy for the management of employees. Analysis of employer initiatives that claim to empower employees needs to distinguish those initiatives labelled...

... the extent of employee “‘empowerment”. At the same time, however, there is strong employee support for teams, and employees feel that teamworking allows them to have more input into problem‐solving and decision‐making. This article argues that what has occurred in each case is a “re‐organisation of control...

...Conrad Lashley Employee empowerment is said to benefit all organisations. The fast moving global economy requires that organisations learn and adapt to change quickly, and employees have a key role to play here. This is particularly true in modern service organisations. The empowered employee...

...Ian Cunningham; Jeff Hyman The paper presents findings from a case study organisation which has ostensibly adopted an empowerment programme. The findings indicate a rather different trajectory for empowerment than anticipated by most prescriptive accounts. Both employees and their empowered...

...Norma D’Annunzio‐Green; John Macandrew Evidence to date shows a divergence in the methods and approaches used by companies to introduce empowerment and indeed a wide debate as to the meaning and appropriateness of the term itself. The popularity of the concept has led many organisations to “dive...

...Len Holden Forms of employee empowerment often associated with HRM initiatives have increased considerably in recent years. This research examines communicational forms of empowerment in a British and Swedish bank. The findings are contextualised against a rapidly changing environment which...

...David Collins This paper offers an account of empowerment as an ideological construct. Rejecting management accounts of empowerment as limiting and logically inconsistent, the paper offers a dynamic analysis of empowerment as an essentially ambiguous concept. Based principally upon an analysis...