Is Empowerment Really A New Concept

By Mushin Lee, Joon-Sung Koh. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Transformational and transactional leaderships, empowerment climate, and innovation performance: A multilevel analysis in the Chinese context (2012, background): “Lee and Koh ( 2001 ) suggested that empowerment involves two concepts: First, the “objective behaviour” conducted by the supervisor to the subordinates, which was called managerial empowerment.”
The impact of participative leadership behavior on psychological empowerment and organizational commitment in Chinese state-owned enterprises: the moderating role of organizational tenure (2006, methodology): “Since prior research has suggested that gender, educational level, job level, and locus of control (e.g., Koberg et al., 1999; Lee & Koh, 2001; Menon, 2001; Spreitzer, 1995, 1996) may influence the psychological empowerment of employees, we controlled for the effects of these variables.”
The Emergence of Self-Organizing E-Commerce Ecosystems in Remote Villages of China: A Tale of Digital Empowerment for Rural Development (2016, background): “…empowerment literature sensitized us to the related information regarding the three dimensions of empowerment—structural, psychological, and capability empowerment (Jacques 1996; Lee and Koh 2001; Spreitzer and Doneson 2005)—which correspond to different aspects of challenge in rural development.”
Psychological and environmental empowerment: antecedents and consequences (2008, background): “This has been attributed to the fact that the “behavioral” (or environmental) component of empowerment has not been separated from the “psychological” component ( Lee and Koh, 2001”
An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Transformational Leadership, Empowerment and Organizational Commitment (2011, background): “According to Lee and Koh (2001), empowerment consists of two facets: " behavior of a supervisor " (also known as behavioral empowerment, that is a supervisor who empowers his/her subordinates), and " psychological state of a subordinate " (also known as psychological empowerment, that is as a…”
The effects of employee empowerment on employee job satisfaction: A study on hotels in Turkey (2011, background): “Literature review and research hypotheses Despite the fact that there have been numerous definitions on the construct of employee empowerment, there has been no full consensus on all sides concerned (Lee and Koh, 2001; Peccei and Rosenthal, 2001).”
Two decades of self‐leadership theory and research: Past developments, present trends, and future possibilities (2006, background): “Self-leadership may enhance feelings of empowerment by creating perceptions of meaningfulness, purpose, self-determination, and competence (Lee and Koh, 2001).”
Employee empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment (2011, background): “This aspect of empowerment is concerned with the behaviour of a supervisor ( Lee and Koh, 2001”
Does participative leadership enhance work performance by inducing empowerment or trust? The differential effects on managerial and non‐managerial subordinates (2010, background): “For example, in the empowerment literature, participative leadership behavior has been predominantly treated as a source of intrinsic motivation and psychological empowerment (Lee & Koh, 2001; Quinn & Spreitzer, 1997; Spreitzer, 1996).”
Understanding empowerment from an employee perspective: what does it mean and do they want it? (2008, background): “The individual response to the amount of empowerment employees currently accept and are willing to accept would appear to offer support for the importance of individual variations in experiences of empowerment (Lee and Koh, 2001; Conger and Kanungo, 1988) as the individual perceptions and beliefs im”
Employee perceptions of empowerment (2005, background): “Lee and Koh (2001) refined this description further by looking at the intersubjective nature of the subordinate and supervisor.”
Teachers’ Personal and Team Empowerment and Their Relations to Organizational Outcomes: Contradictory or Compatible Constructs? (2005, background): “Basically, this construct has received two main interpretations (Conger & Kanungo, 1988; Lee & Koh, 2001).”