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Showing 1 to 20 of 2014 for “"Empowerment"”.
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DIGITALLY ENABLED COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
… IN RESOLVING THEIR PROBLEMS. ADOPTING AN EMPOWERMENT PERSPECTIVE, THIS STUDY EXAMINES HOW ICT EMPOWERS THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY. THREE CASE STUDIES OF THE THAILAND FLOODING 2011, CHINA TAOBAO E-COMMERCE VILLAGES, AND MALAYSIA ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT ARE PRESENTED. USING AN INTERPRETIVE …
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Empowerment effects across cultures
It is evident that empowerment is in widespread use as a management tool in international organisations. A comprehensive literature review identified that empowerment exists as two distinct constructs: relational empowerment and psychological empowerment. Building on this delineation, existing …
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Technology-enabled political empowerment
Political participation and community involvement in the United States have declined steadily and significantly over the past four decades, and some attribute the fall to new media, such as television and the Internet. This thesis is a study of new technologies and their impact on political and …
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Empowerment : a multi-level process
The term "empowerment" is frequently used by organizational researchers, management practitioners, and consultants. However, despite the popularity of the term, there is a lack of empirical work and no generally accepted definition. As part of a thorough multi-disciplinary literature review, …
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Economic Empowerment and Political Participation
… It explores how ideas of political and economic empowerment and what motivates people to become politically active translates across different contexts. The study concludes that microfinance is positively and significantly associated with political participation, and social capital, that …
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Ecological Schoolyards Landscapes of Empowerment
… landscape is also examined, as the concept of empowerment through experience in the landscape is a strong component of this project. With insights gained from an extensive literature review, the author tests the design position through the design explorations of a single schoolyard. The design …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Empowerment in Their Work Environments as Measured by the Psychological Empowerment Instrument.
… was to investigate teacher perceptions of their empowerment. Six school systems in the Northeast Tennessee region were used in the study. Of the 600 teachers who were surveyed, 312 responded (52%). The Psychological Empowerment Instrument was used to survey the sample.</p><p>Research supported …
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Universal Empowerment: A Qualitative Exploration of Contributing and Defining Factors of Cognitive Empowerment of Middle Managers
The universal model of empowerment was developed as a model which builds on the Thomas and Velthouse Model (1990) and is an extension of the Siitonen and Robinson Model (1998). It was named because of its physical characteristics and inclusiveness, not because it makes any claims to being an …
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Dimensional Assessment of Empowerment in Organizations
… dimensions to accurately measure the level of empowerment in organizations. As such, the survey was psychometrically analyzed to determine the validity of the instrument as a measure of empowerment. Additionally, an extensive review of the literature was performed to determine new dimensions …
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Empowerment and planning for healthy communities
… the psychological dimensions of the concept of empowerment in planning for healthy communities, and evaluate the role of community planners in the practical application of this concept. A case study examines the use of a community-based organization (Collingwood Neighbourhood House - CNH) as a …
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ECONOMICS AND EMPOWERMENT: CATALYSTS OR COMPETITORS?
… in providing women with higher levels of empowerment, as measured by various dimensions. Since the evidence points to improvements in economic and gender inequality, we consider household bargaining models to unpack the causality between economics and empowerment. We propose a new …
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Unspoken Incantation: Kawaii Culture as Empowerment
… as a form of expression that represents female empowerment in kawaii culture. This paper specifically addresses how kawaii culture has evolved to include a form of self-expression primarily constructed by young females. Proponents of kawaii culture claim to celebrate femininity through the …
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eRadio : empowerment through community Web radio
… that may lead to the sustainability and empowerment of different segments of the dispersed community, and of the whole, by airing issues of collective importance and thus moving individuals, groups, and institutions to reflection and cooperation. Volunteers become communicators that get …
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High School Teacher Perceptions of Empowerment
… the research concerning the conditions of the empowerment of teachers. More specifically, it measured high school teachers' perspectives concerning their levels of empowerment by their principals based on the four domains of empowerment: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. This …
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Empowerment As Lived Experience: A Social Psychological Study of Empowerment Among Indian Women in a Development Context
The empowerment of women has become one of the cornerstones of contemporary development discourse. However, the frequency with which commitments to empowering women have been stated in international development policies and agendas has not been matched by adequate social psychological theorisation. …
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Sustainability, Empowerment, and Resident Attitudes toward Tourism: Developing and Testing the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS)
… of psychological, social, and political empowerment and developing them into reliable and valid measurement scales. After validation, the three sub-scales were tested in a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), which demonstrated them to be construct valid based upon tests of convergent, …
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Empirical Empowerment: how methods of evaluating women’s empowerment shape understanding of agricultural and nutritional development in Busoga, Uganda
… for standardised methods of measuring women’s empowerment; however, there is not yet consensus on best practices. This research critically examines an increasingly popular tool, the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (AWEA Index) and its applications in agricultural and …
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The Atlanta Project: An Antipoverty Empowerment Program
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