Perceptions Of Empowerment Research Articles

Влияние организационной социализации на чувствительность к справедливости и активное поведение в контексте восприятия психологических возможностей

Purpose. The key purpose of this study was to assess the role of psychological empowerment perception in the effect of organizational socialization on equity sensitivity and proactive behavior. The terms subjected to this study were reviewed within the context of the relevant literature and investigated to which extent they were interrelated. Study design. A research model was developed based on theliterature review, if organizational socialization practices might boost the level of equity sensitivity and proactive behavior of employees through positive psychological empowerment perception. The data from 261 employees working at A Plus Hospital and Hotel Management Service were analyzed using relevant statistical analysis techniques to test the model. Findings. The findings revealed that organizational socialization practices influence employees’ equity sensitivity and proactive behavior, with the psychological empowerment perception serving as a mediating factor in these relationships.

The Effects of an Online Support Program for Nurses with Covid-19 Patients on the Professional Quality of Life and Psychological Empowerment Perception: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effects of an Online Support Program for Nurses with Covid-19 Patients on the Professional Quality of Life and Psychological Empowerment Perception: A Randomized Controlled Trial

High performance work systems and employee mental health: The roles of psychological empowerment, work role overload, and organizational identification

AbstractEmployee mental health is a central issue in today's global workplace. This paper analyzes the effect of high performance work systems (HPWSs) on employee mental health. We integrate HPWS concepts with job demands‐resources (JD‐R) theory to examine competing theoretical perspectives—a positive HPWS influence and a negative HPWS influence on employee mental health. We examine employees' perceptions of psychological empowerment as an indicator of the motivational pathway of the JD‐R and work‐role overload as an indicator of the strain pathway to explain the differential effect of HPWSs on mental health. We also incorporate organizational identification theory to demonstrate how one's identification with the organization can either accentuate or attenuate feelings of both psychological empowerment and work‐role overload. Findings from a study of 999 employees in 174 South Korean organizations indicate that HPWSs are positively associated with employee mental health via employee perceptions of empowerment and that HPWSs are negatively associated with employee mental health through perceptions of work‐role overload. Furthermore, the study finds that organizational identification attenuates the relationship between HPWS and both empowerment and overload. Practice‐level post hoc analyses also reveal that the job design characteristics, pay level, and participative decision‐making are linked to empowerment. In addition, participative decision‐making is most strongly associated with work overload.

Does Empowerment Effects the Quality of Work Life?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and rapid developments in technology increase the need for improving the teaching-learning process and teacher performance. Research shows that empowerment has a significant and positive effect on teachers’ organizational behavior.Schools are living spaces where teachers spend most of their lives. As long as teachers’ perceptions of the quality of work life are high, it is expected that the degree of achieving the goals of the school will be greater. In this article, it is evaluated how empowerment in their school affects their own work life quality according to teachers’ perceptions. Quantitative design was used in this study. The data of this research were collected from 298 teachers determined by random sampling method working in the central districts of Denizli province during the 2020-2021 academic year.235 (79%) of the teachers participating in the study were female and 63 (21%) were male. The Teacher Empowerment Scale developed by Hıdıroğlu and Tanrıöğen (2020) was used to measure teachers’ perceptions of empowerment. The Quality of Work Life Scale, which was adapted to Turkish and educational organizations by Akar and Üstüner (2017), was used in order to determine teachers’ perceptions towards their work life quality. Multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to predict the quality of work life by using the “cooperation”, “professional development”, “trust” and “status” sub-dimensions of teacher empowerment. Teacher empowerment affects the quality of work life. Accordingly, “cooperation”, “professional development”, “trust” and “status” which are the dimensions of teacher empowerment predict the quality of work life positively and significantly. The predictive variables “collaboration”, “professional development”, “trust” and “status” dimensions explain 58% of the total variance of the predicted variable “quality of work life”. However, according to the standardized regression coefficients (β), the order of importance of the predictor variables on “quality of work life” is “trust”, “status”, “collaboration” and “professional development”. In this study, it is recommended to examine the “trust” and “status” dimensions, which were determined as the variables with the highest impact on “quality of work life”, separately.

Virtual leaders: Can customizing authoritarian and democratic business leader avatars influence altruistic behavior and leadership empowerment perceptions?

This study investigated how avatar customization activated leadership styles which may influence subsequent altruistic behavior. Participants (N = 222) engaged in a resource allocation task after customizing avatars that combined their physical self with the traits of democratic or authoritarian business leaders relative to a control condition. Authoritarian condition participants showed decreased altruism than those in the democratic condition. Additionally, participants attributed increased leadership empowerment to their customized avatars but not to themselves. The findings supported the assumption that business leader primes can influence individuals’ behavior and provided initial evidence for how avatar customization can exert priming effects on altruism and social perceptions. Future research avenues for this line of research are further discussed.

New Graduate Nurses' Incivility Experiences: The Roles of Workplace Empowerment, Nursing Leadership and Areas of Worklife.

To determine what extent are workplace empowerment, New Graduate Nurses' (NGN) perceptions of nurse leaders, trust in management, and areas of worklife predict coworker incivility experiences? NGNs' perceptions of nursing leaderships' control over workload contribute to coworker incivility experiences were tested. The relationship between workplace empowerment, authentic leadership, and areas of work life (workload control and fair resource allocation) to coworker incivility experiences were examined. Secondary analysis of Starting Out, national survey, Time 1 dataset. Select factors of workplace empowerment, authentic leadership, areas of worklife, trust in management and NGNs' co- worker incivility experiences were situated within an ecological approach. Multiple linear regression was used to test whether a negative relationship of workplace empowerment, areas of worklife and authentic leadership to NGNs co-worker incivility experiences and important new findings were discovered. First, NGNs' perceptions of workplace empowerment predict coworker incivility experiences when controlling for authentic leadership and trust in management. Second, NGNs' perceptions of areas of worklife predict coworker incivility experiences when controlling for authentic leadership, trust in management, and workplace empowerment. Third, NGNs' perceptions of authentic leadership do not predict coworker incivility experiences when controlling for workplace empowerment and trust in management. Finally, NGNs' perceptions of authentic leadership do predict coworker incivility experiences when trust in management and workplace empowerment are not controlled. NGNs' perceptions of authentic leadership would benefit from workplace empowerment of the nurse leader in workplace environments to mitigate coworker incivility experiences.

Which socio-demographic patterns influence nursing managers' empowerment perceptions among nurses? An investigatory study.

Nurses were the most numerous healthcare workers employed in the current Italian healthcare systems. By considering them the driving force of the healthcare systems, the present study aimed to investigate which socio-demographic characteristics in nurses could influence empowerment promoted by their managers, by understanding what socio-demographic characteristics influenced the nursing manager empowerment and could help nursing managers to perform their empowerment approaches by highlighting strengths or weaknesses. An on-line, observational, multicenter, cross- sectional study was conducted by recruiting a total of 126 nurses. Negative and significant correlations and associations were recorded between all the Empowering Leadership Questionnaire sub dimensions and age (p<.05). Data reported linear and significant associations between all the five sub dimensions of the ELQ and age (p<.05), as younger nurses more perceived their nursing managers' empowerment presence than their older colleagues, too. Empowerment is a very complex topic in the nursing practice in which managers should be aware of the role of empowerment in promoting work engagement and effectiveness and differential effects on new graduates and more experienced nurses.

“Female empowerment is being commercialized”: online reception of girl crush trend among feminist K-pop fans

ABSTRACT This paper critically analyses the newly emerging girl crush concept in the K-pop scene, exploring how this new claimed female-empowering trend interplays with K-pop fans’ perception of feminism and empowerment. Discourse analysis reveals that K-pop fans perceive the girl crush concept as a highly commodified form of feminism that essentially safeguards the patriarchal status quo and underlying gender power relations of the K-pop industry. Although few fans celebrate this girl group concept as potentially empowering, several fans indulge in counter-discourses critically reflecting on the presence of internalized Misogyny among K-pop fandoms while also calling for a need to embrace feminist values to achieve changes within the K-pop music industry.

Desiring women in contemporary Senegal: Nafissatou Dia Diouf and Kalista Sy’s inclusive afrotopos

In Afrotopia, Senegalese scholar and writer Felwine Sarr argues that it is time for Africa to undertake “the efforts of critical reflection in regard to oneself, one’s own realities and situation in the world: to think oneself, to represent oneself, to project oneself” in order to “contribute to the positive transformation of African societies.” Contemporary Senegalese writers Nafissatou Dia Diouf and Kalista Sy are committed to transformative visions of Africa in their work which focuses on the perspectives and desires of Senegalese women. Through the genres of literature and television screenplays, Diouf and Sy tackle important, sometimes sensitive, issues that are not often portrayed on the page or the screen and that push back against patriarchal views of women. By elevating women’s voices and experiences, these two important cultural producers stimulate critical reflection on perceptions of gender, sexuality, desire, pleasure, and empowerment to promote a more inclusive society and afrotopos.

Physical activity in pregnancy: a mixed methods process evaluation of the FitMum randomised controlled trial interventions

BackgroundPhysical activity (PA) at moderate intensity is recommended for healthy pregnant women. The three-arm FitMum randomised controlled trial showed that it was possible to increase PA level during pregnancy with structured supervised exercise training (EXE) compared to standard care. Motivational counselling on PA (MOT) did not increase PA. This process evaluation aims to understand the implementation and mechanisms of impact of EXE and MOT.MethodsA mixed methods process evaluation was conducted using the UK Medical Research Council’s process evaluation framework by assessing implementation (reach, fidelity, and dose) and mechanisms of impact of the two interventions provided to pregnant women in FitMum. Data was collected both quantitatively (n = 220) and qualitatively (n = 20).ResultsThe FitMum trial reached educated pregnant women (80% having an educational level ≥ bachelor’s degree) with high autonomy of everyday life. Most participants (58%) were recruited at their first-trimester ultrasonic scan. Reasons to participate were personal (91%) and altruistic (56%). The intervention dose was delivered as intended with high fidelity in the original physical intervention setup and in the altered online setup during the COVID-19 restrictions. A low dose received in EXE (1.3 [95% CI, 1.1; 1.5] sessions/week) was partly explained by the pre-scheduled EXE sessions favouring participants with a flexible everyday life and a supportive social network. Dose received in EXE increased during online intervention delivery. Participants in MOT received 5.2 [4.7; 5.7] of 7 sessions. Mechanisms of impact comprised a perception of intervention commitment among participants in EXE due to the scheduled EXE sessions, whereas participants in MOT considered themselves as PA self-determined. PA was considered as constrained activities in EXE and included in daily activities in MOT.ConclusionThe FitMum interventions was delivered with high fidelity. During COVID-19, the dose received in EXE increased compared to the previous physical setup. Mechanisms of impact as commitment, perception of empowerment and perception of PA as well as the paradox between prioritising PA and family and the need of a flexible everyday life need to be considered when offering pregnant women PA interventions. Future interventions should consider a combination of physical and online exercise training for pregnant women.

Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference

Participatory budgeting gains momentum around the world, and increasing evidence provides mixed results about its effects. Under these circumstances, it is unclear if citizens consider it a source of empowerment and an avenue for effective decision-making in the life of their local community. We know very little about how participants in participatory budgeting perceive the collective empowerment. This article seeks to identify the factors that shape these perceptions about the empowerment potential of participatory budgeting. It focuses on the critical case of Cluj-Napoca and uses 25 semi-structured interviews conducted in October–November 2020 with three categories of participants. Our findings indicate that participants acknowledge the potential for collective empowerment and praise the limited political involvement but identify design issues and resource allocation as weakening the empowerment potential.

Stigma, social support, and spirituality: associations with symptoms among Black, Latina, and Chinese American cervical cancer survivors.

Few studies have examined experiences of stigma and factors associated with symptoms among cervical cancer survivors from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. We investigated survivorship experiences and patient-reported outcomes in the SPADE symptom cluster (sleep disturbance, pain interference, anxiety, depression, and energy/fatigue) among Black, Latina, and Chinese American women diagnosed with cervical cancer. In two phases of research with cervical cancer survivors, we collected qualitative data through individual interviews (N=12; recruited through community referrals) and quantitative data from an observational cohort study (N=91; recruited through 4 national cancer registries). We coded interview transcripts to describe the survivors' experiences. We then evaluated associations between social support, spirituality, and SPADE symptom cluster domains using linear regression models. Qualitative analysis yielded four themes: perceptions of stigma, empowerment, physical and psychological effects, and social support. These concepts revolved around internal and external stigmas, emotional responses, strengthened faith, and different social support types. Quantitative analyses indicated that greater spirituality was associated with lower symptom burden on all five SPADE domains (p<0.01). We observed nuanced associations between specific types of social support and SPADE domains. The survivorship experiences of Black, Latina, and Chinese American women with cervical cancer are negatively influenced by perceptions of stigma. Higher scores on spirituality and varied types of social support were significantly associated with fewer symptoms in the SPADE symptom cluster. Results suggest targets for future interventions to reduce symptom burden among women diagnosed with cervical cancer by leveraging spirituality and social support.

A long way to liberalization, or is it? Public perceptions of women empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa

This paper explores the question of what explains public opinion of women empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa. Muslim societies have often been accused of conservatism toward empowerment, stripping women of equal access to education and opportunities. However, many predominantly Muslim societies in the MENA region seem to be on the way to implement change to provide women with more rights. Prior research points to exposure to diversity as a contributor to the acceptance of a more egalitarian role of women in society. This article analyzes different mechanisms of the exposure hypothesis and whether they contribute to predicting positive public perceptions of women empowerment in the region. The empirical analyses rely on public opinion data collected by the Arab Barometer in 2018–19. The descriptive findings suggest attitudinal differences across countries, but also significant gender gaps and divergences across core explanatory factors found under the umbrella of the exposure hypothesis, such as diverse urban living, keeping religion a private matter, and connecting with the world via social media. These factors seem important to shift people's minds and to pave women's long way to liberalization.

Empowerment through Mobile Apps: A Mixed Methods Case Study of an Application for Pregnant Women

This article analyses the manner in which mobile health applications contribute to the empowerment of patients. The theoretical background included m-health, user empowerment and value co-creation. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to investigate the representative case study of the Kangaroo application, a free app designed by a health-tech start-up and a reference Brazilian hospital which seeks to make Brazilian women empowered for a healthy pregnancy. The data collection effort comprised application log analysis of 6 months of records of almost one-hundred thousand users, a mobile-based survey with approximately 400 women, and 16 in-depth interviews. The results demonstrated that the app’s social features impacted more than personal features. This research’s results suggested that the perception of patient empowerment is not greater for the active users of the application, so the patient is not related to ‘doing’, but rather to ‘being able to do’. The participation of specialised professionals, who moderate and interact with the app community, is valued by the users and mentioned as a differential among other health information sources available on the Web. This study was approved by the Brazilian Research Ethics Committee.

The Prediction Level of Teachers' Perceptions of Psychological Empowerment on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

The purpose of this study is to determine the prediction level of teachers' psychological empowerment perceptions on their job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors. The research is designed in the relational survey model. 400 teachers working in primary schools in Bolu, Turkey participated in the study and out of 356 teachers participating in the study voluntarily, 314 scales were delivered back and evaluated. Psychological Empowerment Scale, Job Satisfaction Scale and Organizational Citizenship Scale were used as data collection instruments. The findings indicated that teachers’ perceptions of psychological empowerment were moderate in self-determination, and high in other dimensions and the whole scale. The moderate level of teachers’ perceptions of job satisfaction and organizational citizenship is a striking and concerning result. When teachers do not have high level of job satisfaction, their performance will decrease, and it will be difficult for these teachers to exhibit organizational citizenship behavior. In the study, that the teachers’ perceptions of psychological empowerment affect both job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors necessitates the importance of psychological empowerment in increasing teachers' job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors. In this sense, it is an important finding that teachers’ job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors will be increased by means of them having self- determination over their work, increasing their competence, making them influential by allowing to think, talk about and intervene the incidents that occur in the school, and ensuring their participation in work-related decisions. The finding indicating that teachers’ perceptions of psychological empowerment play an important role in increasing their job satisfaction and organizational citizenshipBehavior reveals the authenticity of the research.

Positive digital communication among youth: The development and validation of the digital flourishing scale for adolescents.

Research has extensively studied the negative effects of digital communication on adolescents’ well-being. However, positive digital experiences and behavior in adolescence are still poorly understood. The recently developed Digital Flourishing Scale addresses this gap and focuses on the positive perceptions of a user’s experiences and behaviors in digital communication among adults. In this paper, we developed an adolescent version of this scale. Study 1 demonstrated the internal consistency of the scale and the same factor structure for adolescence as for adulthood: connectedness, civil participation, positive social comparison, authentic self-presentation, and self-control. Study 2 confirmed the identified factor structure with a second sample of adolescents and established measurement invariance across genders. The construct validity of the scale was confirmed by investigating associations with related constructs, including the basic psychological needs from self-determination theory (competence, autonomy, and relatedness), secure attachment to a close friend, Internet aggression, social media-induced inspiration, authenticity of posted positive content, and social media self-control failure. The results indicated that not all adolescents flourish equally online. Differences occurred depending on the adolescents’ gender and socioeconomic status. The paper concludes that the newly developed scale is a valid and reliable measure for assessing adolescents’ perceptions of digital thriving and digital empowerment.

An Experiential Study on Drivers of Employee Experience

Managing expectations of talent is a continuous and on-going challenge in the world of employee engagement. The definition of the engagement and its attractiveness to retain talent is ever dynamic and rapidly changing across every decade. This means the way engagement is experienced by the employees is also rapidly undergoing a change. Post pandemic a new paradigm towards motivation and retention of talent is evolving. The “employee is an asset” approach is moving to next step as employee is a customer. Every business makes an investment in the customer experience It is believed that customer is the king, and a differentiating experience attracts and retains the customer and the same is being extended to the employees in the form of employee experience. Organizations are experimenting different approaches to address the needs of employee engagement in a new economy called experience economy. Some of the organisations have evolved work roles and departments to focus only on employee experience. We think it is vital to understand and prioritise the employee experience and its link to engagement and performance – now more than ever. We believe that engagement will change across industries and sectors and so the experience of the employee will be also different in those industries or sectors. The purpose of this study is to conduct an empirical investigation on identifying the variables that make up an employee’s experience and how those variables shape the experience of an employee in a specific service industry. The methodology used to develop the suggested framework has been provided, along with an explanation of each variable that contributes to an enhanced employee experience framework. The Hypothesis is formulated accordingly. The suggested framework’s data is being statistically analysed using approaches such as reliability analysis, bivariate correlation, and multiple linear regressions. Data was collected from 179 employees working from various information technology-related firms in Pune .The findings of the study state that perception of empowerment, involvement and enablement enhances the employee experience in the IT Sector. The model proposed in the study can be adapted in the other organisations of the service sector or the manufacturing sector to design employee experience. There is possibility of addition of more pillars based on the specific need and changing context of the organisations. There is also scope to apply this model to specific target segment of the employee as per the need of the research.

Does one rotten apple always spoil the barrel? The role of perceptions of empowerment when consumers observe destructive others in online co-creation activities

Online co-creation activities can at times backfire for a firm. Instead of strengthening the relationship between a firm and its consumers, consumers mock the activity and make meaningless, insinuating, or otherwise destructive contributions. This is problematic not only because the initiative does not achieve its intended purpose, but because destructive behavior often seems to inspire followers who copy the behavior or cheer it on. In this paper we examine ways in which firms can potentially protect themselves against such contagious negative behavior. We argue that when online co-creation activities allow consumers considerable freedom of expression, this helps them to feel a sense of empowerment, making it less likely that they will join in when they see other contributors engaging in deviant or destructive behavior. The two studies we conducted to test this hypothesis provided evidence to support this rationale. Their findings are relevant for customer engagement research as well as for online content managers. Perceptions of empowerment are identified as being a key factor in determining how consumers engage online, and are shown to be particularly important in online co-creation activities.

The empowering, the empowered, and the empowerment disparity: A multilevel analysis of the integrated model of employee empowerment

This study aims to examine an integrated research model of employee empowerment from the perspectives of managers (the empowering) and employees (the empowered) with a newly proposed construct, empowerment disparity that captures a difference in employees' perception of empowerment within a team. A multilevel analysis was conducted using Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) to test the hypotheses using a matched sample of 286 restaurant employees along with 51 managers and 2129 customers from five tourist cities in Thailand. The findings show that psychological empowerment and the psychological contract have a positive effect on customers' assessment of interaction quality, and empowerment disparity moderates the links between a manager's empowering behavior and psychological empowerment, and psychological empowerment and the psychological contract. The theoretical and managerial implications suggested by the findings are provided for researchers and practitioners.

Pengaruh Empowerment, Self Efficacy, dan Budaya Organisasi Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan

Employee performance affects the company's ongoing activities, and better employee performance will help the company develop the company for the better. Improved employee performance will bring progress for the company to survive in an unstable competitive business environment. This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of empowerment, self-efficacy, and organizational culture on PT employees' performance. Zebra Agrindo Utama Jember. The variables used are Empowerment (X1), self-efficacy (X2), corporate culture (X3), and employee performance (Y). The population in this study were employees of PT. Zebra Agrindo Utama Jember, totaling 60 employees. The sampling technique used is the saturated sample. This study uses multiple linear regression analysis with independent variables, namely empowerment, self-efficacy, and organizational culture. The dependent variable is employee performance. This study uses qualitative data quantified with primary data sources obtained through questionnaires distributed to respondents, namely employees of PT. Zebra Agrindo Utama Jember, and secondary data obtained from journals, articles, and literature related to empowerment, self-efficacy, organizational culture, and employee performance. The results showed that empowerment, self-efficacy, and corporate culture had a positive and significant effect. On the variable performance of employees of PT. Zebra Agrindo Utama Jember, so that the better the employee's perception of empowerment, self-efficacy, and organizational culture by employees, the better the employee's performance