Understanding empowerment from an employee perspective: what does it mean and do they want it?
By Kay Greasley, Alan Bryman, Andrew Dainty, A. Price, N. Naismith, R. Soetanto. 2008
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the various meanings of empowerment for employees from their own perspective, the psychological dimension of empowerment and whether employees want to be empowered.Design/methodology/approach – In order to understand how employees feel about empowerment, it is necessary to ask them directly so that one can understand their perceptions. A qualitative approach is adopted, employing 45 semi‐structured, in‐depth interviews with employees. The aim of the interviews is to provide an insight into the meanings of empowerment for these employees.Findings – The findings indicate that the employees do not recognise the term “empowerment” nor do they reference the term “power” in relation to themselves. However, they are able to relate to associated concepts, notably “personal responsibility” and “control over their work”. Empowerment for the employees was found to operate as a continuum, as the extent to which employees seek empowerment varies considerably. The inn...
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science
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- Empowering leadership: Construct clarification, conceptualization, and validation of a new scale (2014, background): “Empowerment has then really occurred only if employees experience this state (Greasley et al., 2008).”
- Positive organisation : the role of leader behaviour in work engagement and retention : original research (2011, background): “Empowered employees demonstrate the characteristics of an engaged employee (Avey et al., 2008; Dvir, Eden, Avolio & Shamir, 2002; Greasley et al., 2008; Reynders, 2005).”