48 research outputs found
Effective Empowerment in Organizations
Get PDFPsychological empowerment is the perception that workers can help determine their own work roles, accomplish meaningful work, and influence important decisions. Empowerment has been studied from different perspectives, including employee perceptions, leadership behaviors, and management programs. Despite positive rhetoric, programs designed to increase empowerment seldom achieve the benefits promised. Inconclusive and seemingly contradictory outcomes stem from the fact that few companies give employees significant control and access to management information. A half century of research suggests that empowerment strategies can offer real benefits. We outline facilitating conditions for effective empowerment, including characteristics of organizations, leaders, employees, and the work itself
Effective Empowerment in Organizations
Get PDFPsychological empowerment is the perception that workers can help determine their own work roles, accomplish meaningful work, and influence important decisions. Empowerment has been studied from different perspectives, including employee perceptions, leadership behaviors, and management programs. Despite positive rhetoric, programs designed to increase empowerment seldom achieve the benefits promised. Inconclusive and seemingly contradictory outcomes stem from the fact that few companies give employees significant control and access to management information. A half century of research suggests that empowerment strategies can offer real benefits. We outline facilitating conditions for effective empowerment, including characteristics of organizations, leaders, employees, and the work itself
The impact of societal cultural values and individual social beliefs on the perceived effectiveness of managerial influence strategies: a meso approach
Get PDFThis paper reports the findings of a 12-nation study designed to test empirically the relationships between societal cultural values, individual social beliefs, and the perceived effectiveness of different influence strategies. The relationships between three types of broad influence strategy (persuasive, assertive, and relationship based) and four dimensions of individual beliefs (cynicism, fate control, reward for application, and religiosity) were examined. Three of Project GLOBE's cultural values (in-group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and future orientation) were selected to investigate their direct effects on the rated effectiveness of influence strategies, and their possible interaction with dimensions of individual beliefs. Results showed that different dimensions of individual social beliefs predict the perceived effectiveness of the three types of influence strategy, and that cultural values can moderate the strength of the relationship between these dimensions of individual social beliefs and the perceived effectiveness of influence strategies
Liderazgo gerencial: una revisión de la teoría y la investigación
No full textEste artículo revisa y evalúa las principales teorías del liderazgo y resume los hallazgos de la investigación empírica sobre le liderazgo. Los principales tópicos y controversias incluyen los del liderazgo versus la gerencia, las habilidades y rasgos del líder, la conducta y actividades del líder, el poder e influencia del líder, los determinantes situacionales de la conducta del líder, las variables situacionales moderadoras, el liderazgo transformacional, la importancia del liderazgo para la efectividad organizacional y el estudio del liderazgo como un proceso atributacional. Se discuten también los aspectos metodológicos de la investigación sobre el liderazgo y las implicaciones para el mejoramiento de la práctica gerencial. Un marco de referencia conceptual integrador es presentado para mostrar cómo las diferentes teorías y líneas de investigación se complementan entre sí
