Empowerment and organizational commitment of chiropractic faculty

Psychological empowerment of employees in selected organisations in South Africa

“…Griggspall & Albrecht, 2003;Henken & Marchiori, 2003;Hochwälder & Brucefors, 2005;Hu & Leung, 2003;Moye & Henkin, 2006;Vardi, 2000), while confirmatory factor analysis was used in only a limited number of studies (e.g. Kraimer, Siebert & Liden, 1999;Spreitzer, 1995).…”

“…Sauer (2003) reports an overall Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.92 and 0.92 (meaning), 0.89 (competence), 0.91 (self-determination) and 0.84 (impact) for the subscales. Henken and Marchiori (2003) report Cronbach alphas ranging from 0.79 to 0.88 for the four subscales. The above results indicate high reliability for the subscales of the instrument.…”

Research in Chiropractic Education: An Update

“…Empowerment gives faculty the freedom to be creative, try new ideas, and reshape their environment. Related research, also reported on by Henkin and Marchiori, 81 borrows from the expectancy theory and self-efficacy theory to frame the argument of how empowerment is an enabling process that is individually motivational. The authors reported that employment status and areas of assignment are important variables, as measured by a survey instrument dealing with psychologic empowerment and faculty demographics.…”

“…Furthermore, empowerment is associated with the level of commitment of the institution as experienced by the individual, with a fit between the task and the goal or purpose of the job. 81 Deliberative practice is the development and maintenance of expertise that requires extensive and sustained practice of necessary skills. According to Guest et al, 82 this includes the following: achieving an appropriate difficulty level; immediate and informative feedback; and the opportunity for repetition and correction of errors.…”

Estimating Recreational Benefits of the Kuakata Sea Beach: A Travel Cost Analysis

“…Related research claims that organizational culture facilitates empowerment (Johnson, 2009). Developed countries provide strategies and conditions that improve the performance and empowerment of academic staff (Henkin & Marchiori, 2003). But, in developing countries like Albania, still the concepts like psychological empowerment are not a known concept at least in record to university procedures.…”