title: Revisiting empowerment:  a study of improvement work in health care teams.
abstract: This article reports on a study of team empowerment in a large clinic at a Swedish hospital. The focus of the study was to understand how a high degree of empowerment enabled the teams to develop and sustain a high level of performance. More specifically, a model of empowerment was used to identify important factors that contribute to team empowerment in 3 teams at the clinic. In the analysis of the empirical data, 21 factors were identified and the degree of empowerment in the 3 teams was assessed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Marketing and Logistics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden. tomas.mullern@ihh.hj.se
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Müllern
authors.forename: Annika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nordin
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D058996:Quality Improvement; D013548:Sweden