Empowerment in terms of theoretical perspectives: Exploring a typology of the process and components across disciplines

Abstract

A variety of studies on empowerment has been conducted, but there has been no overarching framework available for practitioners and researchers hoping to grasp the process and components of empowerment in a comprehensive manner. This study was designed to provide the overarching framework across theories and disciplines for both academics and practitioners in the field of empowerment. A method of theoretical synthesis was employed in this study. Studies were chosen for review in the article based on the two criteria. First, both books and articles were not limited as long as they included theories on the steps toward empowerment and the cognitive element of empowerment. Second, disciplines were not bounded as they provided ideas for the empowerment process and its cognitive elements. It was found that empowerment might be synthesized into five progressive stages and four cognitive elements in both personal and collective empowerment.

Vadovų vaidmuo įgalinant žmogiškuosius išteklius

“…authorise). Socialiniuose moksluose ši sąvoka vartojama plačiai įvairiose disciplinose: sociologijoje, ekonomikoje, edukologijoje, vadyboje, politikos moksluose, lyčių studijose, socialinių mažu-mų tyrimuose (Hur, 2006). Kiekviena šių disciplinų įgalinimo terminą interpretuoja savaip.…”

Sistematični pregled literature s področja ambivalentnega seksizma

“…Avtorji s področja opolnomočenja posameznic in posameznikov (Hur, 2006;Simonet, Narayan in Nelson, 2015) poudarjajo tudi pomen nekaterih drugih psiholoških konstruktov pri spoprijemanju z diskriminacijo. Hur (2006) poleg zaznane pomembnosti problema izpostavlja sledeče: kompetentnost (samoučinkovitost, mojstrstvo), samodoločenost (lokus kontrole) in občutek vplivnosti (samozadostnost, sprejemanje odločitev).…”

“…Hur (2006) poleg zaznane pomembnosti problema izpostavlja sledeče: kompetentnost (samoučinkovitost, mojstrstvo), samodoločenost (lokus kontrole) in občutek vplivnosti (samozadostnost, sprejemanje odločitev). Simonet s sodelavci (2015) pa navedenim dodaja še občutek psihološke varnosti.…”

The Relationship between Knowledge Management, Emotional Intelligence and Empowerment to Performance

“…The aim of these activities is to save control costs that become redundant when employees act independently and in a self-motivated fashion. In the book Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, the authors illustrate three keys that organizations can use to open the knowledge, experience, and motivation power that people already have (Hur, 2006). The three keys that managers must use to empower their employees are: 1.…”