Beyond the individual: toward a nomological network of organizational empowerment.
Empowerment research has generally been limited to the individual level of analysis. Efforts to study empowerment beyond the individual require conceptual frameworks suggesting attributes that define the construct and guide its measurement. This paper presents an initial attempt to describe the nomological network of empowerment at the organizational level of analysis--organizational empowerment (OE). Intraorganizational, interorganizational, and extraorganizational components of OE are described. Implications for empowerment theory and practice are discussed.
Peterson
N Andrew
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Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. andrew-peterson@uiowa.edu
Zimmerman
Marc A
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D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012919:Social Behavior