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The relationship between empowerment and entrepreneurship in collective societies is, in our view, insufficiently … examined. Accepted definitions of empowerment and the assumptions underlying programs and research designs based on them result … in outcomes that self-fulfil and, as a result, disappoint. Several issues are prevalent: the empowerment potential of …
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The area of women’s empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors … understandings of women’s empowerment in the literature and to discuss empirical evidence from NGO projects in the field. A … findings highlighted four common understandings of women’s empowerment including granting women a voice, challenging existing …
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This research investigates employee empowerment's role in the relationship between quality management practices (QMPs … were given a questionnaire with 29 questions that measured QMPs, employee empowerment, and innovation performance. The … empowerment and innovation performance, while quality commitment (QC) and quality education and training (QET) have a positive and …
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organisational context. As an influential factor for this motivation, we can find psychological empowerment in the sense that it … gives employees freedom and confidence. This study aimed to understand the role of psychological empowerment in employee … motivation. Empowerment can be translated, in a business context, into the training and valorisation of collaborators with a …
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A considerable body of research substantiating the importance of workforce diversity to public organizations has accrued over the past two decades. However, research on workforce diversity has also been narrow in scope and frequently fails to link diversity to important individual and...
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Many jobs today are predominantly knowledge work. This makes organizations dependent on value created by knowledge workers (KWs). Many of the initiatives to improve and manage knowledge worker productivity (KWP) give unpredictable results depending on factors that are often hidden and unknown....
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The main objective of this study is to analyze the effects of work engagement, identification with an organization and perceived organizational support on job satisfaction and how these issues vary with gender. Data were collected in a public higher education institution with a questionnaire...
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Recent decades have witnessed how both in Spain and elsewhere, legal reforms have helped to transform the management and governance of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). These transformations have changed the conditions in which academics work, with a knock-on effect on their job...
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This paper assesses the impact that the degree of acceptance of the selection process, as conducted by the human recourses management (HRM), has upon job satisfaction in the local tax offices (LTOs) in Greece. Furthermore, it examines the effects that various individual and demographic...
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As the study of servant leadership expands beyond theoretical exploration, empirical research continues to validate the positive effect of servant leadership behaviors and attitudes on diverse follower and organizational measures. This study expands the conversation by engaging the theme of...
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