Empowerment in Organizations: Volume 4 Issue 3

Empowerment ‐ a management style for the millennium?

Ralph F. Long

Presents a composite case study covering four years’ work with a variety of companies across the industrial spectrum although mainly within the health‐care sector. Provides…

Implementing empowerment through subunit clusters: a Western Australian case study

C.A.L. Pearson, S.R. Chatterjee

Suggests that in spite of significant development in the area of empowerment in management, the implemental aspects of it have remained largely unexplored. Presents a model for…

Training, empowerment, and creating a culture for change

Leon A. Kappelman, Thomas C. Richards

Examines an innovative first step which one organization took on the road to employee empowerment. States that although this first step was a small one, it resulted in large…

Empowerment and rewards: a case study

Leontine Born, Eric Molleman

Focusses on the implications of empowerment for rewards and the way in which reward systems can support empowerment. Finds some support for this idea and works out the relation…

Personal empowerment: self as tool

Linda S. Wing

Advises consultants, “experts,” how to examine and come to understand their personal biases, opinions, experiences in order to assist clients better in understanding the complex…