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Development in Practice, 1995 'Empowerment' is a term often used in development work, but rarely defined. This article explores the meaning of empowerment, in the context of its root-concept: power. Different understandings of what constitutes power lead to a variety of interpretations of empowerment, and hence to a range of implications for development policy and practice ...
Rowlands, Jo
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Relocating empowerment as a management concept for Asia [PDF]
, 2012 Management theories, especially those in the area of human resource management, are predominantly Western-centric in origin and in the empirical testing that underpins them. The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions of one such theory, employee
Wong, Alan, Cheung, Catherine, Baum, Tom
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Empowerment–An Introduction [PDF]
, 2014 This book chapter is an introduction to and an overview of the information-theoretic, task independent utility function "Empowerment", which is defined as the channel capacity between an agent's actions and an agent's sensors. It quantifies how much influence and control an agent has over the world it can perceive.
Christoph Salge +2 more
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Consumer empowerment and self-assessment of empowerment
PLOS ONE, 2021 This study examined the influence of consumer empowerment and its self-assessment on consumers’ information search behavior and consumer life satisfaction; it also examined whether the results were consistent with the Dunning−Kruger effect. A total of 977 consumers who participated in a national consumer survey were divided into four groups, based on ...
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I am Max : a story of self-advocacy and empowerment
, 2021 The current social realities of transgender individuals create some opportunities to change the dominant narrative of exclusion by cultivating the relationship between empowerment and self-advocating.
Morin, Annie
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008 We propose that an interactional perspective on how emotion is constructed, shared and experienced, may be a good basis for designing affective interactional systems that do not infringe on privacy or autonomy, but instead empowers users. An interactional design perspective may make use of design elements such as open-ended, ambiguous, yet familiar ...
Kristina Höök +3 more
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, 2023 Aesthetics in design are known to be empowering in terms of various perspectives in one’s life. This paper aims to discuss innovative approaches, methodologies, and technologies that can further enhance the role of aesthetics in empowering individuals in the digital age.
Mengru Xue +4 more
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Challenging empowerment: AIDS-affected southern African children and the need for a multi-level relational approach [PDF]
, 2014 Critics of empowerment have highlighted the concept’s mutability, focus on individual transformation, one-dimensionality and challenges of operationalisation. Relating these critiques to children’s empowerment raises new challenges.
Ansell, N, Nicola Ansell
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Personality and intelligence: persistence, not self-directedness, cooperativeness or self-transcendence, is related to twins’ cognitive abilities [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. A person-centered approach focusing on the interaction of an individual’s temperament-character-life events is essential in the path of individuals’ well-being. In this context, three character traits, Self-directedness (e.g., self-acceptance,
Fariba Mousavi +5 more
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Journal of Immunology Research, 2022 In recent years, there has been ample evidence illustrating the effect of microbiota on gut immunity, homeostasis, and disease. Most of these studies have engaged more efforts in understanding the role of the bacteriome in gut mucosal immunity and ...
Njinju Asaba Clinton +5 more
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