Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal Orientation [PDF]
, 2019 Empowerment has emerged as an important new issue in the public sector organization setting in the wake of mainstream new public management (NPM). Nevertheless, few studies in this frame have combined structural (managerial) and psychological (individual)
Escrig-Tena, Ana B. +2 more
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Re-thinking technology and its growing role in enabling patient empowerment [PDF]
, 2018 © The Author(s) 2018. The presence and increase of challenges to eHealth in today’s society have begun to generate doubts about the capability of technology in patient empowerment, especially within the frameworks supporting empowerment.
Akeel, Aisha Umar, Mundy, Darren
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Background: Performance monitoring might have an adverse influence on call center agents’ well-being. We investigate how performance, over a six-month period, is related to agents’ perceptions of their learning climate, character strengths, well-being ...
Saleh eMoradi +9 more
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Engage, participate, empower: modelling power transfer in disadvantaged rural communities [PDF]
, 2017 This article explores a process meant to empower disadvantaged communities that have not previously engaged in government-instigated civic projects.
Farmer, Jane, Steiner, Artur Adam
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Patient empowerment in Flemish hospital wards : a cross-sectional study
, 2021 Objective: Measuring empowerment of patients on Flemish hospital wards by the short form of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) and exploring the association between patient empowerment and patient-centred care, health literacy, patient- and context ...
Beeckman, Dimitri +5 more
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Toward a human-centered use of technology: a stakeholder analysis of harm reduction and CBO staff
Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Background Technology can enable syringe service programs (SSPs) and other community-based organizations (CBOs) operating under a harm reduction framework to work with an increased number of clients and can also enable organizations to offer services ...
Ian David Aronson +2 more
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Professional Group Development Trainers’ Personality Characteristics and Affective Profiles
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Background: The Development of Groups and Leaders (UGL), provided by the Swedish National Defence College and mentored by UGL-trainers, is one of the most popular management programs among civilians in Sweden.
Max eRapp Ricciardi +12 more
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The affective profiles, psychological well-being, and harmony: environmental mastery and self-acceptance predict the sense of a harmonious life [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Background. An important outcome from the debate on whether wellness equals happiness, is the need of research focusing on how psychological well-being might influence humans’ ability to adapt to the changing environment and live in harmony.
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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
Baum, Tom, Cheung, Catherine, Wong, Alan
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Approximation of empowerment in the continuous domain [PDF]
, 2012 The empowerment formalism offers a goal-independent utility function fully derived from an agent's embodiment. It produces intrinsic motivations which can be used to generate self-organizing behaviours in agents.
Glackin, Cornelius +2 more
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